In eleven days we

In eleven days we covered plenty of territory in China: Beijing; Xi'an; Chongqing; Shanghai; and countless places I'd never heard of before. I captured it all in images. 252 slides on film and 181 digital photos, to be precise.

But my favorite snapshot, the one that best sums up my travel experience, isn't one by me. It's one of me (pretty narcissistic, eh?). I was standing at the bow of the ship trying to frame the beauty of the Qutang Gorge when Tara framed me instead. This is how I looked most of the time: eye pressed to lens, mouth squished to one side in concentration, hair unruly.