Hi everyone! More tales to tell than we can shake a stick at, so let’s just let some photos tell a thousand words each. There are captions to guide you through. Enjoy!

Photos of Mongolia: Entering the Gobi Desert

This series will be posted in “real time”, though I wrote it the night before departure based on the map of our itinerary. So these are approximations of what will be going on each day for the next 25 days of this epic Mongolia trip. Short n sweet.
The first two days are doubled up so [...]

After an unexpected overnight layover in No-Facebook’s land (China), wherein the convenience store of our very posh airline-paid-for hotel one could purchase vacuum-sealed chicken feet to munch (vomit), we met our hostel’s airport pick-up in Mongolia’s capitol of Ulaanbaatar.
A nice Mongolian fellow waited to greet us, bearing a sign that boldly proclaimed he was [...]

POLKA-DOTTED SHARKS!!! Don’t TELL me God doesn’t have a sense of humor (or some serious drugs). They are absolutely awesome and even more incredible in person than I’d imagined – and I’ve been looking forward to this for YEARS!!! I’ll never forget the first moment I jumped in the water, mask and snorkel on, and [...]

I enjoy giving my mom the occasional coronary. Mom’s reaction to my new tiger picture:
me: ps did you see the blog update? have you entered your email address to get email notifications?
michelle: scuse me but i just learned how to text!!! I need to do more??! Now i know how that kid felt [...]