In late 2009, Hope "Mommie Bear" Walker returned to Sprint Triathlon competition after a 7 year retirement. Her success in her age group has been fabulous and she has qualified for and has become a member of the USAT Team USA for 2011 and will compete for the USA team at the 2011 Sprint Triathlon World Championships in Beijing China in September 2011. This blog is to chronicle her efforts and journey and to help raise donations to fund her trip to Beijing China to represent the USA Team and to chronicle the family's involvement in multisports competition.

Monday, September 5, 2011

Great Wall at Mu Tian Yu

Our first excursion... to the Mu Tian Yu section of the Great Wall.  Very impressive - you could see towers and wall an incredibly long way off in the distance.  When you really think about how long ago this was built, it makes it even more "great".  The Chinese characters in the hillside mean "Follow the Chair Mao" (I think I got that correct).  To get up to the Great Wall, we rode a chair lift... to get back down, we rode in a toboggan... which would have been much more fun had the tourists in front of us not continually stopped (even under the "No Stopping" signs!!!)  Fun first day of touring! 

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