Chang just emailed from Zhongzhou, his hometown. Although I knew he was in China, and I knew I had a week vacation coming up, I failed to put one and one together. Fortunately I'm already headed in the right direction. Zhongzhou is another four or six hours north of Wuhei, on the same train that I'm getting on in two hours. So, at great risk to the relationship between my Foreign Affairs Officer (Li Xu) and the FAO at Guilin Institute of Technology, who has added me to the vacation at the last minute. I am changing plans to go see Chang and blowing off the Three Gorges. I'm taking a gift bag of Moon Cakes (non-poisonous, I hope; vegetarian, for what it's worth, because they were intended for me) to smoothe over hard feelings (he tried to call the travel agent and the boat trip agent at home tonight). Hopefully I won't have to eat a Y650 boat trip ticket. Fortune smiles - the train goes through to Zhongzhou. So, about twenty hours in hard seat class, and then Changimal!