Day 17: Leaving Beijing

Today Angie and I were set to leave Beijing in the evening.  It was a great trip, with many unique experiences that I would not have been able to have without the generous hospitality of Angie and her family.  I am very grateful for their hospitality.  We didn’t do...

Day 14: Great Wall of China and Summer Palace

Today I went with Angie and her parents to the Great Wall of China. Angie warned me in the morning that today would be particularly cold, so I was thinking it was going to be somewhere around -2 degrees Celsius. Angie’s father drove us all to the Great Wall and as we...