Day: 275 Today is our first day in a week that we haven’t had to pack up our bags and move on to somewhere new, although with the insane afternoon sandstorms we ended up huddled in our ger for a few hours anyhow. The break was exceptionally deserved after what the morning did to my [...]
Day: 274 The Mongolian population doesn’t actually believe in roads of any sort, everyone is just required to have four wheel drive then plow through the countryside creating fresh tracks. About half the time we are driving along with absolutely no road of any sort, and the other half of the time we are in [...]
Day: 273 -Went to an ice filled valley in the middle of the sweltering desert where we got slightly lost and turned a three hour hike into five. We ran out of water and never got to eat luch. When we got back to our Russian jalopy, we found our driver unconcernedly sleeping in the [...]
Day: 272 My alarm went off rudely this morning at 2am. Although I guess it is my fault, I set it. I decided I should follow Tomix and Lena’s (the Polish couple) advice and see the desert in its pitch black, almost full moon, glory. Grudgingly I squirmed my way out of my sleeping bag [...]
Day: 271 I guess coming out of Tibet I had got too used to the cold because now I am baking as we traverse further south. Dripping sweat while being beaten by a hot, dusty wind has forced me to have to use a bandana just to help keep the sun off, and maintain a [...]
Day: 270 9:30 was our designated time to meet up with our new Polish acquaintances and our Mongolian driver to head south into what we have been told would be days at a time without civilization of any sort. After a quick stop at the pharmacy for a supply of eye drops and aspirin, we [...]
Day: 269 Yeeeaahh! I woke up this morning and my eye is almost completely better. With the Gobi trip starting tomorrow this really couldn’t be better news. We spent the day wandering the city stocking up on food for the next three days. Having been told we would be staying with nomads and the next [...]
Day: 268 Ulaan Bataar is supposedly the coldest capital city in the world, I really didn’t find it so as I unloaded my bags from the train to the hostels van that was sent to pick us up. All I saw was old soviet era buildings and a city that seems excessively un-photogenic (at least [...]
Day: 267 My diet on the 30 hour train ride north into Mongolia today consisted basically of those three things; Oreos because I think Felicia is trying too fatten me up to sell me to the Mongolian nomads. Oil which thoroughly soak every piece of meat and vegetable that came out of the dining [...]
Day:266 I have always said (although this being the first time on “Mom Says…”) that if people are not related or have know each other for at least a decade it is near impossible to travel together for an extended amount of time and not annoy the shit out of each other; with one [...]
