Category Archives: Travel
This is frost built up…
I took a few pictures that show frost built up on the inside of our apartment building entrance. The wind blows in here fairly strong.
Four reasons I’m glad it is freezing out
Yeah… we were on a vacation to some nice warm places. And now we are back to temperatures well below freezing. So I have been seeking the silver lining. 1 – No biting insects. No mosquitoes. No flies landing on my ankles or to shoo off my food. This really is a blessing. You know …
No car day in Ulaanbaatar
Yesterday Pepper and I were out of the house by 9:30 to get some things together to have brunch with Meghan and Liz. All the stores we tried to hit were closed until 10 though. We lingered in the sun and found an ATM that worked (1 out of 4 isn’t too bad). We did …
Avoiding being a victim at UB’s black market
Today we went to the black market. I like to go there. It is chaotic, the people watching is great and the things you can buy there are amazing. We browsed through dozens of stalls looking at used shoes and boots. Think of this place as a giant flea market although most areas the vendors …
Saving money in Mongolia
One of the reasons that we decided to take jobs teaching in Mongolia was because it was a wise financial move. With the job market too uncertain back home having a two year contract for both of us was a good move. But there are all sorts of other financial benefits that are showing up… …
Tidbits from Mongolia
Today was the first day of work. We met a number of new and veteran teachers during the day. In Petersburg there were some people I saw weekly for over a decade and I still had a hard time remembering their names… So I’m making a huge effort to get names right and remember them. …
Experiences during our first few days in Mongolia
We have been meeting some of the other new teachers as well as some teachers that have been here prior over the past few days. Yesterday a bus from the school took us to the black market – one of the largest in Asia. I used to think of an underground shady scene where Russians …
The move to Mongolia
We had Jerod and Melinda help us haul bags to the airport on Sunday morning. Since we sold our car earlier in the week, Rachel was carting us around and so we had an automatic going-away-party as well as extra bodies to help shuffle the 15 bags we checked. Apparently the scale we used wasn’t …
Day 20 – May 25, 2011 – Rome
Our last day in Italy and we had a few of the more distant sites to see. We really should have learned the bus schedule but we stuck to taxis and the subway system. We walked a LOT this day. Unfortunately the two catacombs we went to you are not allowed to take pictures of …
Day 19 – May 24, 2011 – Rome
We somehow managed to wait a few days before hitting the Colosseum. It was a hot day for us to walk around the Forum too. And we hit the Pantheon too. We used the subway quite a bit but also did a heck of a lot of walking. We couldn’t miss the Capuchin Crypt‘s morbid …
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