Day 4 I'm not going to sugar-coat it. Today was definitely the low point of our trip. When you have three travelers, all with different agendas, things are bound to come to a head at some time. Today was that time. We spent the day sorting out of flight info, not seeing Mao's tomb in Tienanmen Square, grabbing lunch in the food court at one of the fanciest malls in Beijing (oooh...,) and then we boarded a plane for our hour-long flight to Xi'an in the Shaanxi province. Not a terribly fascinating day, but I'm trying to look on the bright side. On the taxi ride from the airport to our hotel in Xi'an, I noticed that although this city was certainly polluted, they took a "glass half full" approach and many of the buildings had
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