Beijing

This has been a long journey, both in planning and in reality.  I am a weary traveler, as is Aleah. Ava seems to be running on some sort of hyperactive mania, so glad is she to be home. She insisted the “air even smells different” the moment we landed in Beijing and before we disembarked that giant Boeing 787. It has been six years since she has set foot in her homeland, but the heat and the smells already seem familiar to her.