It was time to head back to Beijing. So we packed up and bought a couple tickets and took the bullet train home. And although I didn't get many pictures, it really was the perfect day of traveling. We went through mountains and past cities, there were clear skies and there was snow.
When I had flown in to Beijing over a month before, I had looked out the airplane window and seen a train weaving its way through the mountains, in and out of tunnels, across the landscape. And I wanted to do that. I knew train rides weren't that exciting. I knew you couldn't see the whole mountain from inside the tunnel. But I wanted to do that. Take a train through the mountains in China.
So on this day, I felt very gratified as we went through a few tunnels and I gazed out the window at the snow and the hills and the power lines draped across the sky....
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