by Laura Conaway

I'm off to China today. Just this second I'm sitting in the Newark airport with 400 renminbi and a bite-sized Kit Kat in my pocket. The old greenback's not buying what it used to — until just lately, a dollar got you seven or eight RMB. Just now, I got more like five RMB and change.

Also, I stopped in at the airport bookstore to buy little gifts for my hosts. I was hoping to get a few small I [Heart] New York pins, but they were all made in China and schlepping them back just seemed too absurd.

Gotta run. They're lining up to board.