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beijing

北京

A very cool city. Old and New. I'm happy that it will host the 2008 Olympics. China and Beijing deserve a chance to show the rest of the world what China is like today.

I have been to Beijing 5 times (to date). Every time I go there, I see many changes.
Here I'll try to chronicle it leading up to 2008.

For now, I'm still constructing this page.

Like Beijing....hopefully I'll have more by 2008

Here's a few shots in and around Beijing!

In November, 1998, my second cousin Barb Forster and her friend Michelle decided to do Beijing. I ran down from Jinzhou to meet them and spent 4 fun-filled days with 'em.

Cousin Barb runs into her twin sister in the streets of Beijing.
(Boy, did we attract a crowd when taking this picture!
They thought Barb was the Fuji Film poster girl).

Two blondes in Beijingl! AIYAHHH!
My cousin Barb (left) and friend Michelle
at the Ming Tombs near Beijing.

Mao Ze Dong wrote:
You aren't a great man until you have been to the Great Wall.
By Mao's standards, I guess I qualify, right?

A Piece of Old Beijing:
The Summer Palace

On the Great Wall at sunset:
Badaling outside Beijing.