I Went To China, and I Have Thoughts

In December I was fortunate enough to have a LOT of PTO banked up, and I spent almost all of it on 3 weeks in mainland China and Taiwan. I hit 3 cities in the mainland - Beijing, Shanghai, and Zhangjiajie - as well as Taipei in Taiwan. This wasn't my first time in China. I actually went as a middle schooler for one week. It was an exchange program my middle school had with Beijing No. 5 middle school. This was in the early 2010s, over 14 years ago. My memory is pretty bad and obviously that t...