Leaving for Xi'an

We're off for Xi'an tonight on an overnight train for a couple days and a few thousand terracotta warriors. After doing some simple math, it looks like heading out west from Xi'an would require a bit more money than we feel like shelling out at the moment. Heading south would require crossing a major flood zone, so that leaves going east to Shanghai, probably via Nanjing. This route makes the most sense anyway, since we can swing up north from there to get us back to Beijing eventually, and lets us see some of the cool coastal highlights, which I'm excited about.