Some people you meet while traveling disappear from your life as soon as the trip ends. And occasionally, someone reappears 12 years later. When Elaine first visited Beijing as an eight-year-old, Dad & Elaine joined a tour group. One of the people we met on that trip was our Beijing tour guide. Elaine was eight. China was still very new to her. And none of us could possibly have known how many...
There are two ways Dad & Elaine can travel Beijing. One is: Go. Go. Go. Forbidden City. Temple. Museum. Next attraction. Check the map. Walk another 15,000 steps. 😂 And then there are days like this one. We took the Beijing Metro (北京地铁, Běijīng Dìtiě) to the Qianmen area with a much simpler plan: hang around. No guide. No tour bus. No ambitious sightseeing checklist. We wanted to spend the day around...
Not every day in Beijing needs to be: Forbidden City → Temple of Heaven → Summer Palace → Great Wall → exhausted Dad. 😂 Sometimes we just want to go somewhere… and spend time there. On this particular day, Dad & Elaine took the Beijing Metro (北京地铁, Běijīng Dìtiě) to Wangfujing (王府井, Wángfǔjǐng). There was no guide waiting for us. No tour bus. No complicated itinerary. Elaine wanted to revisit a bookstore...
Dad thought the birthday surprises were finished. They weren’t. 😂❤️ Earlier that evening, Dad & Elaine had been traveling back to Beijing (北京, Běijīng) from Dezhou by high-speed rail. Elaine had already celebrated Dad’s birthday aboard the train — without a real candle, so she simply drew one onto Dad’s birthday photo with her iPad. 😂 After arriving at Beijing South Railway Station (北京南站, Běijīng Nán Zhàn), we connected onto the Beijing...
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