Steering around roadblocks
Updated: 2015-09-28 07:46
By Erik Nilsson and Yang Feiyue(China Daily)
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Authorities have streamlined procedures for foreigners to drive into China. Street-smart expats turned road warriors explain why jumping behind the wheel offers jarring yet joyous journeys of discovery in the country. Erik Nilsson and Yang Feiyue report. Erik Nilsson/Yang Feiyue
Richard Webster feared the slick trickling down his neck was blood.
It was.
He lay on his back in the dark, wiggling his appendages one-by-one, before moving his neck, in case it was broken.
It wasn't.
The Briton had tumbled off a two-story farmhouse's roof in a village in Shandong province.
He stumbled away with scrapes and bruises.
Webster chalks up the war wounds to road-rash.
"You have to accept road trips don't go according to plan. That's the point," he explains.
The manic motorist has driven 150,000 kilometers on over a hundred journeys through China, swerving through all but four mainland provinces.
Webster drove through Europe before moving to Beijing nine years go.
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