The legendary Gobi….what images it conjures up, some true and some not, as it turns out. A land of contradictions. A desert, but mostly without sand. A byword for dryness and lack of water, but rivers flow through it, there are lakes and it’s known as the source of the sweetest and best vegetables grown in the country.
I grew up in Redwood Country….forests. I’ve always loved forests. My mom loved the desert. Me. Not so much. Until I met this desert.
A view I love…a Mongolian earth road stretching out ahead as far as one can see, Juiy 2010Time to milk the camels at the only herder’s ger for many miles. Got my first taste of camel’s milk airag, July 2010It does rain in the Gobi and everything can turn green in a matter of hours, July 2010My tent on Orog Nuur, a remote Gobi lake, just myself, my guide, the cook, hundreds of birds and gazillions of mosquitos. When camping in Mongolia, you can stop and pitch your tent pretty much wherever you want to, July 2010Last glow of evening light on The Flaming Cliffs, made famous by Roy Chapman Andrews’ Central Asiatic Expeditions of the 1920s, Sept. 2006
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Hi, I’m very glad to have found your blog. Thank you for sharing your photos, art and experiences in Mongolia. Now I can return to Mongolia vicariously through you!
Susan Fox, American Artist 
Hi, I’m very glad to have found your blog. Thank you for sharing your photos, art and experiences in Mongolia. Now I can return to Mongolia vicariously through you!
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