Shaanxi n00b with photos (and questions!)

[euphonius]

I'm not looking forward to the shenanigans of getting a license. This city is so small, doing something like this usually results in a bunch of blank-looking faces from over-paid desk jockeys and things like "I don't know. A foreigner has never done this before. I don't think you can do it." blah blah blah.

All true except for the "overpaid" part. If you got paid as little as these Chinese bureaucrats get you'd act exactly the same way!