I got to Beijing around dinner time today and checked into my hostel. The airport is beautiful and the highways from the airport are lined with newly planted trees and dolled up with flower boxes every few feet.
The pollution here is even worse than Hong Kong or Shanghai. The sky is a dull gray, and the sun is orange. Aside from being depressing, it makes navigating more difficult because I can't see farther than a city block, so I can't see distant landmarks. They're onto plan B which involves shutting down even more factories, and taking 90% of personal cars off the road, and it's still pretty bad. Hopefully we'll get some wind or rain to clear it up. Or the government will implement some cloud seeding.
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There was a long piece tonight on PBS about the pollution and the impact on athletes including the fact that the US teams aren't training in Beijing at all. Sammie
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