上次回北京是疫情前了，一转眼都四年半了。回来什么都好，唯一不爽的是国内的游泳馆和健身房比美国的贵多了。家附近的街上小公园有很多老年人下棋，怀念这个场景。这是在美国一般见不到的。每次回国坐地铁都会发现又多了好几条线路，密密…

Returning home from a two-month solo backpacking trip. I met a little brother from Beijing who I met in Chiang Mai two months ago. I haven’t been in Beijing for too long. He took me to visit many alleys and small shops that I have never been to. The hutongs in Beijing in winter feel more Beijing-like than in summer, which is still the way I remember when I was a child. There are bare branches, and from time to time a group of birds come from...