Day 2 (7/27) – Arrival @ Beijing

To get to Beijing, we had to fly from Houston to Los Angeles, from Los Angeles to Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport, and then from there to the Beijing Airport. Although this was a lot of flight changes, most of the flights were on time and we managed to get into Beijing early in the morning [...]

Day 2: A Long Journey from Home

The Green Ambassadors arrived at the Beijing Capital Airport just before midnight local time after being on the road for almost 30 hours.  By the time they settled down at the hotel at the historical Dongjiaominxiang (東交民巷, the former embassy district), it was 2 a.m.