China – India Travel Reports from Boots on the Ground

By John Farnam

By John Farnam

Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- Update from China and India, from friends traveling there:

“Beijing, China:

Air quality is ecumenically wretched! I felt as if I’d smoked a carton of cigarettes after only a day there.

People are cold, unwelcoming, unhelpful.

Flying out of Beijing in daylight, I couldn’t believe the universal poor condition of the air. An oppressive, thick, gray-brown cloud smothers the entire countryside, even when we were hours away from big cities.

Looking out the plane window, I saw two things (through the smog) in abundance:

1) Miles and miles of jammed-together, high-rise government tenements

2) Huge industrial complexes with countless smokestacks continuously filling the sky with black soot.

What is “universal” in China is short life-spans! It is a miserable, unhealthy place. I have no interest in ever going back.

By contrast, people in India are friendly and very glad to see us (albeit also jammed-together). Lots of smiles, unlike China!

The exit from the airport baggage-claim is ‘guarded’ by a single man, in uniform (after a fashion), …Read the Rest

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