A look back: Another billboard in China

Here’s another shot of a billboard in China from our trip in 2007 with the Barron Collier High School marching … More

A look back: Through the ‘Summer Palace’ doorway

Here’s a backlit shot through a doorway at Beijing’s Summer Palace that I shot in in 2007 during our trip … More

At tourist areas, such as the airport in Xi’an shown here, law enforcement (mostly handled by the Army) had “police” … More

Here’s a shot I got in as we left the airport in Xi’an in China during the 2007 trip by … More

Well, outlet malls aren’t exactly all-American as we saw during the 2007 visit to China. I snapped this shot in … More

Here’s a shot of a part of our group on a walkway at Beijing’s Summer Palace in 2007. It was … More

Here is a map of the Forest of Stone Tablets Museum in Xi’an, China, taken when the Barron Collier High … More

It would only be obvious that this is an example of traditional Chinese architecture. The Barron Collier High School marching … More

Here’s a building on grounds of the site of the terra cotta warriors and the Museum of Qin main excavation … More

We did the complete tourist thing when we visited Beijing and Xi’an in China in 2007. One of the stops … More

Here’s a shot Stephen took at a historic site when we visited Xi’an in China during the 2007 trip by … More

I caught this shot of a big statue near the entrance to the Museum of Qin of the terracotta warriors … More

During their 2007 visit to China, members of the Barron Collier High School marching band got a look at traffic … More

Here’s a shot of the terracotta warriors in the Museum of Qin main excavation area at Xi’an in China. It … More

Here’s a close-up shot of the internationally famous terracotta warriors. I got the shot when we visited China in 2007 … More

Guess what this is … it’s a jug full of snake wine. Yes, snake wine in China. We saw this … More

The Barron Collier High School Band (Naples, Fla.) played U.S. patriotic music at the Great Wall when it visited China in … More

When the Barron Collier High School marching band went to China in 2007, I was a chaperone and our whole … More

I have to repeat the information in a previous blog post here. We did the complete tourist thing when we … More

Didn’t expect to see the “Hey, Dude” attitude when we did the complete tourist thing when we visited Beijing and … More

When the Barron Collier High School marching band went to China in 2007, it performed in Beijing, on the Great … More

When the Barron Collier High School marching band went to China in 2007, I was a chaperone and our whole … More

I snapped this shot out of our bus’ windshield while we were in China in 2007. I cannot recall the … More

I’ll revisit our visit to China here with a photo of a monument at the Xi’an University of Architecture and … More