Friday, July 18 We woke up early and headed straight back to the CITS office. Thankfully, Josh felt a little more within himself in the morning and did not explode on the CITS guy. When he saw us, he knew something was wrong and recognized his mistake when he looked at the tickets. He ran us over to a bus ticket station and bought us tickets to a city called Taiyuan from which we could catch another bus to Pingyao. We got the bus fine and slept some and saw some funny Chinese movies on it. In Taiyuan, we had to take a taxi from one bus station to another, buy new bus tickets and get on the right bus to Pingyao. This we managed reasonably well with only a little help and pointing and gesturing, but no English. The second bus to Pingyao was more adventurous with not great roads the whole way and random passengers picked up and dropped off all along the highway. No one seemed to think it was weird, so we tried not to either. We finally arrived at Pingyao at about 3:30pm after 5 hour and 2 hour bus rides. Continue reading →