At last, another travel post! Thanks for sticking with me for the fundraising and volunteering; it was a welcome change of pace, but I’m happy to be back exploring. This time, I left the sprawling, somewhat bland cityscape of UB behind and traded it for the sprawling hills and wild horses of Hustai National Park. …
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Living with Nomads in Terelj National Park
The past week has been many things for me. Through an organization called Ger to Ger – an eco-travel agency based out of Ulaanbaatar that focuses on interacting and living with local nomads – I booked a 7 day, 6 night tour through the Gorkhi-Terelj National Park. During the course of the week I was …
The Salt Trail: Part Two
In case you haven’t read it yet, the first part of my Salt Trail trek can be read here. Once you’re all caught up on the first two days, jump back over here and read about the last half of the trek. Day 3: I woke the next morning in the abandoned church to two …
The Salt Trail: Part One
These past four days, I’ve really been ‘off the grid’ so to speak. There wasn’t even any cell phone service! And no… I wasn’t in Oak Harbor. I was trekking through the jungles of the Crocker Mountain Range in Malaysian Borneo. It was an awesome, painful, and exhausting experience that I don’t plan on repeating …
I Climbed Cathedral Mountains, I Saw Silver Clouds Below…
Sometimes a place you visit makes you realize how majestic this world is. When you stand on the peak of a mountain and feel the cool mist of clouds wafting across your skin. When you look out over a rugged and savage vista and, for just a moment, you feel like an eagle priviliged to …
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