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Day Ninety-Eight: Bullet to Beijing
Travel days always make taking pictures a challenge. Mornings are spent getting packed, afternoons are in transit and it’s late by the time we check into the hotel; unpack, eat dinner and the day is...
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Day Ninety-Nine: Mahjong
I borrowed a bicycle from the hotel and took a meandering 20 km ride around central Beijing, yesterday, despite an AQI of 250, in the “Very Unhealthy” range. The bad air isn’t really noticeable at...
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Day 100: Beijing Night Market
The night market is Beijing is a tourist’s must-see; one of the prime attractions is a performance of traditional Chinese opera.
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Day 103*: Wherever
After 102 consecutive days of taking and posting a photograph the streak comes to an end. We arrived home last night after a week in Beijing and today’s gray, wet day was a perfect excuse to stay in...
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Day 190: Climbing the Great Wall
Sections of the Great Wall appear, from a distance, to meander from peak-to-peak, but once you are up on the wall, the perception of meandering gives way to the hard, steep reality of climbing up and...
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Day 191: Summer Palace
Our son is visiting from the USA for the summer and we are playing tourist, yesterday it was the Great Wall, today, the Summer Palace. We rode the metro from our hotel in Chaoyang to the UNESCO World...
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Day 192: Sunshine
Summer in Beijing: sunny, hot and humid. Wednesday was cloudy and in the 80’s (F), but Thursday and Friday has brought blues sky and abundant sunshine, raising the temperature into the mid-90’s (I have...
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Day 194: Travel Day
Travel day between Beijing and Shanghai means a trip from the hotel to the Beijing South Railway Station. The newer railway stations that handle the high speed bullet trains are never quite as crowded,...
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Seattle To Shanghai And Back Again
We did it! After a little bit more than a year back in the United States, we culled through the combined posts from this blog and my wife’s blog, as well as a few thousand photographs, and have...
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