The Potala Palace is AMAZING!!! It had been one of my favorite exotic, seemingly-so-far-away magazine pictures I’d ripped out and taped onto my wall back in Tucson to keep me motivated during our two years’ saving for this trip and it was even better in person than it was in that awesome photo. I’m not [...]

The amazing ice in the middle of the Gobi desert during summer, and some other fun stuff! The ice in this gorge in late JUNE is testament to the -40 degree (F and C) temps it reaches in winter. Come check it out! Photos of Mongolia: the Gobi Desert – Yolin Am Ice Gorge

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 [...]

I’d promised myself I wouldn’t puke. I almost broke that promise as the man with the glass-shard paddle scraped it, repeatedly, down the other man’s back and blood started rolling out with enough intensity and volume that it was an angry red stream – not just an accidental, forgiving ooze. Then the whipping began. With [...]

[ngfilename filename='P1120198.JPG'] It was a long train ride and despite leaving at daybreak, night had fallen by the time we arrived in Jalgaon. Fortunately, the most recent addition to our train bench was a helpful young Indian who lead us to our desired hotel which was a laughably close distance from the station – laughable [...]