Erin and I left Xian in hopes of seeing the province of Shaanxi and making a little money as well. We were picked up near our house, with Artemis in tow, by two pretty nice guys, we later named them Elvis and Costello, who spoke absolutely no English. This wouldn't normally be that strange in the region where we live except for the fact that between them they own six or seven English schools. After a three hour drive north filled with uncomfortable silences and each of us feeling out the others' language levels we arrived in Yan an. Yan an is the site of the Cultural Revolution, or at least the site of the Revolution's newspaper, XinHua. There are a lot of places in this region that claim to be the base of the
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