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Published: October 11th 2010
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The Audacity of Hope
Find the yellow line. , ,
Okay, here goes with my first blog post ever.
I'm two and a half days into my adventure and I'm still alive, so that's a great start. The first thing that needs to be said, which I'm sure most everyone has heard before, is that the smog here is crazy! I feel like I'm walking around in a meat smoker – like I'm a walking piece of human beef jerky. For anyone who watched Seinfeld, it feels like that episode where Kramer locked himself in his apartment for a week smoking cigars and came out looking like he'd aged a decade.
Now, as for the title of this post, I just need to say that the Chinese seem to be a very hopeful people, especially when they are driving. They are willing to give just about anything a shot on the off chance it gets them to their destination about 3 seconds sooner. My best examples so far both came on a trip I took to the Great Wall yesterday. The road was one lane each way, and on more than a handful of occasions, we were four cars wide all heading in the same direction!!! At one point
Outside the Forbidden City
Outside the Forbidden City
our bus literally passed three cars by driving in the shoulder on the opposite side of the road! And for photographic proof of how bad thing got, check out my first photo and notice where the yellow line is and the cars to our left!!!
For the rest of the post, I'll just add a few pics from around Beijing and the Great Wall. Here's hoping this all posts well.
Andy
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