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As so often happens when I travel, opportunities arise for me to choose from and decide about. This tour is the same. I have a few options ahead of me that require both careful thought and prayer. I don’t like to openly and publically talk about this sort of thing because often nothing comes of the opportunities and then I’ve just built up something for nothing. So I won’t give any specifics, but they do have to do with what I will be doing to keep myself busy for the next year or more. I would like to ask you to pray for me to, through God’s leading, make a wise decision. I am going to directly contact a few friends with more details – if you would like to know more, please email me. In either case, thank you very much.
Along with losing two posts of stories of my time here in the Philippines when my iPod gave me issues, I found out I also lost a long page I was preparing of travel tips to help myself and others when we go abroad. I’ll have to start again, but it included reminders like always carry some US dollars (or major currency like Pounds or Euros), pack lighter, and meet people in the airports.
Well, I had two updates and stories about my first week and a half written on my iPod Touch when my blog application decided to fail me so I think I’ve lost them. Without my computer or a decent Internet connection it’s very difficult to try to salvage them. So unfortunately you get the distilled quick version. […read more…]
I was about to write “of Mongolia” but decided that wasn’t exactly accurate and sounded rather doomsdayish. Tomorrow I will take a taxi on a five hour drive to UB as I begin the next part of my overseas work for this trip: working as an A/V tech and crew for Impact World Tour. Before I go, I want to just rapid fire some impressions and photos of my past few weeks here in Erdenet.
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Please excuse the mess while I scramble to change my blog over to a better system, to make it easier for me to post.
Ah, summer seems to be arriving! The weather has been warm and sunny almost all of the past week, which means that we can continue work at the building site for my brother’s house. I told some people before I left a bit about what I would be doing, but now that I am here I can explain it better.
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Whenever I travel I notice some odd things happen with time. It happened again this trip and as I was thinking about it I realized it has similarities to Einstein’s Theory of Relativity which says something about how time goes slower when one travels at faster speeds. Well, this theory has to do with how perceived time progresses at two different speeds during travel.
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I won’t be posting all my photos here, but thought I’d give you a taste. Here are a few of the shots I’ve taken over the past few days of being here.
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Before I left, many people asked me if I would be writing about my time in Mongolia and the Philippines this summer. I don’t think I’m very good at writing compelling updates about my travels or taking the time to regale you with stories, but I will try to highlight some things for you. Besides, I’m uploading some stuff for work and with the slow Internet connection speeds here I have some spare time while I wait.
So I’ve arrived safely in Mongolia after a stopover in Vancouver, BC to visit some friends. It rained in Eugene, it rained in Seattle, and it rained in Vancouver. Okay Cascadia, I’m peacing out for a bit until you sort out your summer plans, be back in a couple months! However, day three in Mongolia and there is snow on the hills up where my brother is building his house. In case you forgot your geography, Mongolia is in the northern hemisphere: it’s summer.
But I get ahead of myself, my brother lives in Erdenet, the second largest city in Mongolia, situated in the north a couple hours from Russia. My parents and I flew in to the capital city of Ulaanbaatar (yes, with five a’s). My brother picked us up and we continued our journey with a five hour drive through the wide open landscape of Mongolia. I wish I could show you pictures, but they are still on my camera and like I said, Internet is slow here. The road we took is the best road through Mongolia they say, and it winds north through a landscape of hill ranges that are for the most part barren of trees. There were a few roadside villages and the surrounding countryside was dotted with gers (yurts) and livestock. The only fences were around individual plots of land a couple acres large: the animals have all the room to roam they need.
While the weather has been wet and cold, we’re here to help my brother build his house. It’s a waiting game right now with small preparations while we wait for the sun to come out and dry the land so we can work.