ROME (Nov 2): Under the autumn sun, 34-year-old Cheng Long stood before the Colosseum in Rome, Italy, a battered rucksack at his feet. In a plain blue T-shirt, skin browned, and hair tousled by wind, he looked every bit the itinerant traveler and the endpoint of a two-year walk that began in China s Xi an [...]
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