December 12, 2016

Beijing Fashion
Beijing, China
2016

I’m not saying it was really, really smoggy in Beijing this morning, but this was taken inside a car–and the Fashion Queen was not kidding around when she donned the mask for her lungs and the goggles for her eyes. The official air quality rating was “very unhealthy” all day except for a few hours when it was the next step up; “hazardous.” So of course we decided to hike the wall. While the section we hiked was about 40km from the center of town, it wasn’t far enough out to significantly lessen the density of the smog. An unwise choice perhaps but the six of us who went all survived.