Day: 285
I am at home now after the last seven weeks wandering about China, Tibet and Mongolia. I was less than impressed with the northern region of China, but as a gateway to the amazing places in Tibet and Mongolia it was a necessary evil.
Here are some of my favorites from the last 7 weeks. [...]
Day:284
In a city that throughly depresses me, I was happy to spend the day wandering though the endless catacombs of what Felicia and I dubbed “The Great Mall of China”.
My flight home is early tomorrow and Felicia’s back to Singapore is in the afternoon, a few meals and a few hours at my computer making [...]
Day: 283
So in a city where you can’t see the sky because of insane amounts of pollution, the greatest athletes are going to converge, next summer, to achieve their worst times and scores of their careers. How anyone expects these stars to give their best when their eyes are bleary from the particles in the [...]
Day: 282
Felicia (who obviously eats some disgusting things) and I arrive at the Beijing train station around two this afternoon, a taxi ride and we had found a room in an underground hostel beneath China’s biggest shopping mall. After some well deserved wandering from being cramped in a train for two days (which included me [...]
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 exception, if [...]
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: 254
Last day in this boring city, I am as exhausted of it as you are. Tomorrow I am off on the first day of 13, across the Kham region here in China.
Hopefully the nomads don’t have cameras to stalk me there.
Day: 253
When I said yesterday that most likely nothing would take place today, I was right. I spent most of the morning in some mix of being on the internet, eating, napping or reading (pretty much what I do at home). Finally 3pm came around and I set out across town to see if I [...]
Day: 252
In my rush to get out of Xi’an, attempting to find something new to photograph, it never dawned on me that I’d be put in a place that could end up being excessively dull. Xining is exactly that, everything it has to offer is as a stop over to the wilds in the lands [...]
Day: 251
Now I pose a question. Would you pay $25 for a 17 hour overnight train ride on a “hard sleeper” crammed in with six people in a cabin or would you splurge for the 1 hour plane ride for $50?
Thats what I thought also. Perhaps it makes me somewhat less of a “hardcore” traveler, [...]
