Check out the size of the climbers to get a rough idea…

In Mongolia, we saw this often… a series of tires seemingly half buried in the ground. See the picture. There were some cases where we saw about 50 of these lined up like in the picture.

From the folks here, found out that they demarcate their property boundary in this fashion. Instead of putting a fence, this is how they draw the boundary line. I guess old tires must be very readily available with all that wear and tear on dirt roads.

Have you ever seen anything like this anywhere?

In the Gobi, you can have your car in any color as long as it is beige!!! It doesn’t matter what you start with. You will always end with that beige color…

It was Mongolia’s Mother’s and Children’s day. June 1st. Everybody gets out of the city to vacation in the mountains and by the river for a couple of days. They simply camp out. As unbelievable as it sounds, there was over 10 km (6 miles) of bumper to bumper cars on the road, plodding along lightly. We were glad we were headed back into the city!!

While in school, we had learnt about the Trans Siberian rail line that went from Vladivostok on the eastern end of Russia to Moscow. During our travels, we met a gentleman who has done that trip! In fact, we also met a young lady who is doing the segment from Beijing to Moscow. She is just hopping out in the big cities for a few days each, enjoying the landscape and people there and then jumping back on….

Never thought I will actually see that Trans Siberian Rail line!

Roger Whitney, are you thinking what I am thinking? Could we be just crazy enough to…? 🙂

(not the shoes though)

Roger, for not knowing what to do with the BIG hotel room they gave the passengers who are stuck in Ulanbaatar…

Or

Me, for thinking about how to take weird pictures.

Here is Roger who cannot decide whether to enjoy the living area or the dining area or just cool off in his bed….

He almost went downstairs to request the hotel concierge if they can delay the flight further…

… but Mongolia is not quite ready to leave us! Ulanbaatar is having weather issues. Our plane is stuck in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. We are delayed for at least 12 hours as of now…

Having seen how the nomads live in the desert, we are convinced this is no big deal.

Turkish Airlines is taking good care of us so far. This is in the bus where they are taking us to the hotel they have arranged to put us up in…