THURSDAY!  Guess what?  We’re in Palm Springs!  That’s right folks, after 30 hours of flying, and sitting and flying and sitting and transferring and, and, and….we’re finally back at the trailer park in good ol’ Palm Springs, California, U.S.A.!  And after we cut through the yellow police tape on our mobile home door and removed all the subpoenas and final notices, we settled into our own little sofa-sleeper and had a good night’s rest.

But while we were gone a lot of people weren’t sleeping.  And we mean people, people – not our night school educated public defender or that jack-a*s public assistance counselor we have to meet with quarterly.  We’re talking about all the GREAT people behind the scenes that kept the Riding4Beer® 2011 China Tour on the road, riding the rails, up in the air, on the web, healthy and out of jail.  Without our dedicated team of Riding4Beer-ers and Riding4Beer-ettes, this whole earth changing, paradigm shifting event could never have happened.

So here’s the deal.  Today we pay thanks to EVERYONE that worked on the tour.  Yes, we know we’re the pretty faces (DAMN PRETTY!) on camera, but there are plenty of pretty faces behind the scenes too.  Also, thanks to EVERYONE that followed Riding4Beer® online, whether you looked daily, weekly, regularly, irregularly (you can take Pepto for that you know!), posted comments, or just gazed in horror from afar.  Keep watching folks (we know you LOVE to watch) because while this tour has ended, there will still be daily posts with sh*t you won’t believe!

                           THE REAL HEROS OF THE RIDING4BEER® 2011 CHINA TOUR - check 'em out!

                                                             
Ms. Cindy – The overall Tour Operations Manager based in Palm Springs that kept messages flowing, our trailer space rent paid, the bill collectors at bay and posted bail for us after that rather unsavory incident in Yangshuo!

                                                            
Ms. Hayley – In charge of all maintenance and facilities, also based in Palm Springs, she saw that our mobile home was power washed regularly and kept the battery charged in our 1986 Ford Taurus.

                                                        
Dr. (name withheld due to ongoing Medical Board licensing issues) – Our Medical Director who provided us not only with plenty of good drugs to travel with, but also diagnosed issues via the internet and told us what to buy at Chinese pharmacies to cure things you don’t even want to know about.

                                                       
Wendy & Ron – International Comment Managers who found time everyday to post witty (in their opinion) comments and encourage others to do the same.  Actually their comments were funnier than our posts!
                                                                  
Gary X – Our internet Ops Guru who kept the website up and visible with a variety of high-tech tools and tricks using legally questionable “mirror” sites in Sweden and Ireland, bogus “floating” IP addresses and something called a “CILOG Reflection Site.”   We beat those Commie bastards at their censorship game and contact us if you want to contribute to his legal defense fund.