Travelling to Tongchuan1铜川之行

The next day， September 1， we started for Yan’an. We took a train at seven in the morning for Tongchuan， to the north， which was as far as the railway extended2. The rest of the way we would have to go by bus. Our fellow passengers were young people from all over China who got off at various stops along the road. Loud， cheerful youngsters from Jiangsu， south of the Yangtze3， were working in a local railway administration office. A moon-faced young man with round glasses， from Hainan Island， had become a forestry instructor at a university in Zhengzhou， in Henan， and was conducting his students on a field trip.

次日，九月一号，我们出发去延安。（剩余6456字）