This gratuitous photo of me and Adam, taken by Jack July during a three-hour train ride from Shijiazhuang to Beijing for which we had no seats, documents one of the happier times in my life -seriously, this is the best way to ride a train- and therefore was preferable to this one, which merely confirms that I resumed smoking when we landed in China and didn’t stop until we left. (And yes, Elle: I am shoeless).
The enormous, mostly mediocre photoset from China is now up; many of the shots are likely only interesting to the people who were there. It can be hard for me to take decent shots in a place I don’t know, and this time, overwhelmed and overjoyed most of the time, I didn’t work too diligently at it.
What a wonderful place it was.
(GPOYW).
