Tuesday, September 6, 2005 Weather: another fine day. Temperature: still hot. Today we complete our tour of the Capital of China, Beijing, and fly to our next city, the former Capital of China, Xi'an. After another spectacular breakfast at the Beijing Hotel we began our day at a slightly later hour. We boarded our bus at about 9:30 a.m. for a short ride to one of the older sections of town. As we left the bus we were assigned by couples to a pedicab and cautioned to remember the number. As previously mentioned, a pedicab is what used to be called a "rickshaw" when it was pulled by a man on foot but in this modern age they now have a bicycle front and are called a pedicab by those who are politically correct. At a
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