After Day: 303 I was going to create a day 304 post, but all that happened was we drove from Sequoia to the coast, hoping to get a beach campground or hotel. Only to find them all occupied and had to make our way home. I didn’t actually get any shots I liked either. In [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Day: 281 Essentially today consisted of getting back on a train to spend 30 hours going the other direction back into China. Lots of snacks and Ipod time.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
