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SFCRetired is currently on an extended trip to China. Our SPAM firewall prevents all access from China but he is emailing me the occasional update and I will be sharing them here.
SFCRetired is currently on an extended trip to China. Our SPAM firewall prevents all access from China but he is emailing me the occasional update and I will be sharing them here.
First of all, contrary to what my lovely bride told me, Beijing was bitterly cold and the weather is still pretty cold. Hopefully this will moderate very shortly.
We went to a military museum in Beijing while we were there and I was amazed at the amount of American hardware on display. One of the things that caught my eye was an almost identical copy of the HUMMV. During our tour, we found a lot of scale models of firearms on display; everything from AKs down to 1911A1s. Mind you, I would not classify these as toys. They were working, non-firing, very accurate (in a detail sense) of firearms we are all familiar with.
What caught my attention was the fact that the Chinese, male and female, were absolutely over-the-top about them. When my bride told some of them that, at home, I regularly openly carry a pistol, the eyes got as big around as saucers.
We have seen the Great Wall (and, yes, it is very impressive), the Summer Palace, and the Forbidden City. We are planning on visiting the Three Gorges dam and my wife's former hometown. I have a little over forty days before I return to the States and Lu has another sixty days after that.
I do have a ton of pictures and will post many of them when I return.
Best wishes to all and carry on,
Joseph H. Endinger
SFCRetired