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Sixty old man back electric rice cooker with wife poor travel 10 countries, tens of thousands of netizens sought after


I don't know English. After the retirement of Ding Baiqing, a 60-year-old man, he and his wife are carrying a rice cooker to swim in 10 countries. The forum moderator who is active in a website is actually a 70-year-old father. At the age of 83, the orthopedic professor Gong Jinyuan Zhou still insists on playing two football matches... the old people who make young people look at each other dare to live a little more exciting!

I don't know English, but dare to travel the country with 10 rice cookers; I don't know the Internet, but I write a 300,000-word travel guide. Many young people are afraid to try things. The 65-year-old Ding Baiqing does it. Arrived.

In 1975, he took his wife for $600 and traveled to more than 10 cities in China. He has been looking forward to his wife's second "Youth Travel", and this day, he has been waiting for 35 years. In the past three years, Ding Baiqing and his wife have gone abroad for seven times with a modest retirement income, and have traveled to 10 countries including Malaysia and India.

Recently, Ding Baiqing began to prepare to bring his wife to start their journey of European tourism.

When I was married, he took his wife 600 yuan to tour 10 cities.

"Ding Ge" is the name of Ding Baiqing's screen. He said that he likes the name because he is "young." Ding Ge’s “Tide” fan can be traced back to 38 years ago.

In 1975, Ding Baiqing got married, and at that time he had the "idea" of traveling and getting married. In April of that year, he took his wife from Chengdu to Chongqing, took a boat along the Three Gorges through Wuhan, played all the way to Shanghai, and finally returned to Chengdu via Beijing. When they were in Shanghai, they bought more than 10 kilograms of pork and brought them back to Chengdu.

"It's a bit stinky in Beijing, but I still have to eat even the oil residue." Ding Baiqing said that the trip lasted more than 600 yuan for more than 20 days, when the popsicle was only 1 cent. "This is our first youth travel, very nostalgic, I did not expect to achieve it again, it has been 35 years." Ding Baiqing said.

Now he is rejuvenating, he brings his wife’s back to the world

A few years ago, Ding Baiqing and his wife retired, and the pace of life suddenly slowed down. In April 2019, the cheap air tickets that were discovered by chance made their lives renew their enthusiasm. The old couple decided to travel the world.

They spent four months preparing for: daughters to help with procedures, exchange foreign currency, and book air tickets; Ding Baiqing is responsible for learning English, visiting forums, and planning for Raiders. "Our heart, began to resurrect; people, began to wake up." Ding Baiqing said in the travel diary. In the following three years, the old couple went out of the country seven times and traveled to 10 countries including Malaysia and India. Even once spent only 2,900 yuan per person, 12 days traveled to Malacca, Penang, Bali and other places.

Today, Lao Ding turned into a netizen "Ding Ge", sharing his own travel tour on the Internet and writing a 300,000-word poor travel guide. He revealed in the Raiders that the expenses are less because they have prepared in advance. "We control the money to the extreme. Every time we go abroad, we carry rice cookers." Ding Baiqing said that they use rice cookers to cook rice, cook and marinate. Eggs, he also had the experience of buying 50 packs of instant noodles at a time abroad.

India looking for a toilet, squatting to make pants

For the old couple, the biggest problem with traveling abroad is language. Before going out, Ding Baiqing worked hard for nearly 4 months against the "Overseas English Spoken Self-help Manual". Even in order to deepen his memory, he would copy it several times in his notebook. Who knows, on several trips, he encountered a lot of anecdotes because of the English accent of the Sichuan accent.

The word "toilet", he had prepared three different kinds of different sayings, but in India, where the English is more "salted and salted", he is eager to find a toilet. He said all the vocabulary he knows. The police are always unknown. In the end, he was in a hurry, and he was squatting and taking off his pants to attract the policeman to laugh, only to understand what he meant. Once in Malaysia, when Ding Baiqing was afraid that the luggage was overweight, he put all the winter clothes on his body. After the customs clearance, Ding Baiqing immediately took off his clothes one by one, which made the security guards present and laughed.

Today, Ding Baiqing's poor travel experience has been sought after by tens of thousands of netizens. He said, "If we are brave enough to travel, then we hope to be brave and hope that more retired people will try new things like us. ”

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