David’s Money Woes
As you know when you travel where you put your valuables, credit cards and money is important and as we are (for the most part) each carrying cash to last us around a month at a time we each have chosen different ways to hide our money.
When it comes to cycle touring there is also the option of hiding cash on/in your bike. So David a great idea to hide a bunch of cash inside his front bike wheel between the tube and the tire.
In theory a fantastic idea. No one would ever think of looking for cash there but……
Well the picture says it all. Ten days of riding, two days of rain and the pressure of his fully laden recumbent literally tore his nice new 100 Yuan notes into pieces.
Thankfully we were in Beijing and after a slightly embarrassing wait while a kind Chinese teller painstakingly pieced the notes back together David received nice new notes which he then proceeded to put back in his front tire.
Just kidding, lesson learned.
I think the trick is to hide the money in the frame. Wedged up the seat post is a good one. Why are you hiding reams of Yuan? Two or three hundred dollar bills in mint condition will cover any money woes.
Good luck!
You can get any incomplete notes to China’s banks into a new dollar.Good Luck!
From China CiXian County
into new notes~
hehe sorry~~!
well done david, im glad to know there is one genius on the team. congrats guys and gal on reaching xian, im amazed at how much ground you have covered already but im sure to you guys k’stan fells like million light years away. home you enjoy your rim job when it arrives or did i mis-read jared’s post? hmmm? i will let the team decide that one!, take care funky peeps!
If this had been Tom we could have really had some fun with Irish jokes. Good one Dave.