When we got to Beijing, we walked to the front of the train for this obligatory picture. We were accompanied in this little trek by a grey-bearded man who just so happened to be from Seattle. He was a retired teacher and was just wandering around the country by himself. We got pieces of his story, but not all of it before being evicted from the platform by security. I always felt safe in China, but I never felt like messing with security, either, so we hustled off the platform…