Sunday Activities: Thieving, Antiquing and Composting

Sept 12th, 2011:   For the past two months, every Sunday morning our Los Angeles Times has been missing from our doorstep.  The first few weeks I figured it was a new paper-person (paperboy is no longer P.C. is it?), but then every week I would complain and they would re-deliver the paper.  Yesterday morning [...]

Business, Business, Business

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 [...]

$25 or $50?

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 [...]

Sunday at the Market

Day: 247 I was going to write, but other than some random meandering and the market, nothing really happened today. Besides, I have to catch a train in a few minutes.