beijing countdown…two days. word. and even now, i’m still trying to get decent directions to the goddamn hotel i booked. the homepage put a vague dot on its map, google has it in an adjacent city to the northeast, and now i’m relying on baidu to guesstimate where the hell the hotel is. currently the best guess is that plot of land under construction in the above image. i’ll find out soon enough i suppose. thankfully i’ll be traveling with my hiking bag…