What’s in the numbers

- October 8, 2018, by Julie and Adam - 

Earlier this summer, on a road in northwest Canada, we met three cyclists within a matter of hours of each other: one who has spent the last two and a half years riding north from Argentina, one headed west looking for work a few hundred kilometers away, and a third riding south as fast as possible. Both of us independently wrote our thoughts about them. Here is a combination of our reflections.

His name was Yuyang. A young man from China who wore an over-sized jacket, a pair of thin tracksuit trousers and some smart suede shoes. His long thin hand reached out for a shake and we introduced ourselves with discreet smiles and nods. 

Yuyang, from Beijing, had a scraggly goatee that might have made him look like a very wise old man if his face had had even a wrinkl