Hello again readers, and welcome to what should be my last travel blog entry. I say this because I will be leaving China to return to the United States in a week, and the only further trip that I intend to make is to Shanghai for a few days to wrap up some sightseeing odds and ends, and possibly to eat dinner at an American restaurant on the Fourth of July. My British friends and I have joked a lot about it, but I think they actually want to help me celebrate the holiday, which is very nice of them. To get down to the matter at hand though, I have just returned from a weeklong journey across China all the way to Chengdu, which is the capital of Sichuan province, the area that was struck
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