I’ve been thinking a LOT about Mongolia recently, since I realized that – mind-blowingly – it’s been a year since our epic 25-day expedition through that most marvelous land. This trip has been beyond description even to look at any singular part of it, any one day or even a sole moment. And when I [...]

Man I am exhausted. In a good way, but still exhausted. Still sleep-deprived after a 4-hour night before going to see the AMAZING Leshan Buddha, then we stayed up and out much longer than anticipated because we decided to be social for once outside of our little G-Ray bubble of travel happiness and antisocial contentment [...]

Another major dream on the Bucket List achieved!: we have seen Pandas in China! Moreover, I got to HOLD a panda in China and get my picture taken with it! Man just a minute ago I was updating from a great time with Carol in Taiwan and now already I’m smack in the middle of [...]

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 [...]