Day: 265
After a late start today was spent taking care of all the business that needed attended to for me to get to Mongolia. Booked a flight for tomorrow morning to Beijing and bought my train ticket from there to Ulaan Bataar for the day after. A couple days of hard traveling are coming up, [...]
Day: 264
850 Kilometers; thats how my day was spent. I also started planning out how to make it to Mongolia for a reasonable price. It looks like I’ll spend tomorrow in Xining booking a flight to Beijing (around $100) then a night in Beijing, followed by the first 30 hour leg of the Trans-Siberian railroad [...]
Day: 263
Waking up early and hungover in Dege (my birthday was a success!), we wanted to get started back in the direction of Xining. Our tour was going to be cut short by a couple of days, but since everyone had somewhere else to get going (think Mongolia) it wasnt too big of a deal. [...]
Day: 262
Alright, today is my 28th birthday and I am celebrating in a the little town of Dege with excessive amounts of vodka mixed with high altitude! Should be a great combo…
On another note, I have been averaging 1500 hits a day on this site lately, so I know you are all out there. Heres [...]
Day: 261
Getting a late start in Manigango, we headed off to see a sacred lake at the bottom of a glacier. The skies agreed with me and the complete lack of anyone else around had me grinning for a solid hour. After a while a group of Chinese tourists did show up, but it [...]
Day: 260
After a day of driving across endless passes and plains we ended up in the tiny town of Manigango, which reminded me of something out of the wild west. A single street, not many people, and when my big white ass walked down it, it was a mixture of stares and “hello”s from [...]
Day: 259
Sometimes a rare day occurs where it all just seems to come together photographically for me; i.e. great skies, spectacular subjects, vultures, and (of course) me not being hungover or feeling like shit. Today happened to be one of those remarkable days.
We visited a number of Tibetan monasteries, temples, a locals families house for [...]
Day: 258
More passes, more prayer flags, more headaches (although they are getting better!), more nomads, some prayer rocks, and snow!
Day: 257
The desolation of Tibet reminds me of Patagonia in many ways; very few people, lots of livestock – but then you hike a hundred feet, try breathing and realize you can’t. Pushing our way up to 4400 meters (14520ft.) today was hard on me, especially after I felt like I had just got used [...]
Day: 256
It feels like a vice is on my brain. It’s only the first day at 3500 meters (11550ft) and my head feels like it is cracking and my body is struggling with what feels like a fever. We made it into Chabcha later in the afternoon after a full day of driving, [...]
