Mom Says I'm Running Away

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: 280 Today consisted of a day of recovery back in Ulaan Bataar, I really didnt even drag out my camera for more than a few minutes.

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 [...]