At least once a day in China, I feel like I'm going to die. We arrived in Xi'an in the evening on the 19th. We got off to a rocky start - first we were duped into taking a "taxi" with these pretend taxi drivers. They basically use their own cars, charge a flat rate (no meters), and do the trips as fast as they can. We were taken across entire airport parking lot looking for the taxi vehicle to arrive at a family mini van, we then learned that they were going to put more people in the vehicle as well, making twice the money on one run... clever... However, Binnson was pretty sure we were about to be murdered. He kept watch on the back seat while I kept watch on the people in
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