And then it was gone...

Between September 28th and October 5th, over the Chinese National Day holiday, Chunman and I traveled to Japan for a long overdue visit with my cousin, his wife and our nephew (to be covered in a later blog post)… When I returned I wandered past the tree to see if the forlorn and forgotten bike was still there, and what if anything had changed during the week we were away… To my surprise...

It was gone! Everything was gone… The parts that had fallen off, the front tire and fork that had become separated rom the frame, everything was gone… I queried the clerks at the bakery mere steps from the tree the bike had been propped up against and of course they didn't have a clue as to what I was talking about. Neither did one of the door guards at a nearby apartment complex… Simple case of here today and gone while I was away… All I can hope is that if it has gone to the great Beijing bicycle scrapyard, that it is repurposed into something useful, something that gives others some joy and pleasure… Like maybe another bicycle?