Ah, the start of a new week. Sun to start the first day. David Feng, just about the only Beijingologist around here, took a day trip out west, and explored Beijing’s National Highway 109… without much of those jams that plagued the highway during the winter.
Jams? On the highway? In winter? The logic works, by the way: in winter, Beijing gets downright chilly, so we need to get just that bit warmer. And guess who’s coming in to help us get warmer — those nice (yet always overweight) folks from not-that-far-away Shanxi Province (山西省). (They’re overweight as in their trucks are overweight.)
And because their trucks are overweight, these guys have a tendency to do two things at the same time — get our coal to us and leave their mark on the highway to the extent that the highway appears to have been hit by a random showering of meteorites. OK, maybe not that bad, but still…
Today, though, it’s just after the start of spring, and things are already quite — “springy” anyway. Enjoy this quick, 5-photo snapshot of how Beijing looks in the west.
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The mountains. The flowers. A dead giveaway that we’re past Vernal Equinox.
Mountain territory.
Into deeper mountain territory…
…but also flatlands.
Omnipresent: The Chinglish
