All I Can Say Is, "Wow"
August 19th 2010 Upon emerging from the tunnel under the street, I was instantly dwarfed by the Forbidden City. I crossed over marble bridges, just ahead of some tour groups. It was all I could do to hobble faster to get ahead of them. Guards and plain-clothes police watched us as we passed en masse toward the big, red gate.
Immediately after passing through the gate (it's surprisingly deep), I was dwarfed b
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