Yesterday I lost my best boy, Billy the Kid. He was a special rescue dog that had been in my life since September 2008. I am devastated and find it hard to move forward but will because life is peppered by loss and there is no respite. Having said that I have no words today.
07/07/2019
I can't stop crying. I just finished burying my best boy Billy the Kid. I knew it was coming but I didn't plan on it today. He couldn't eat a small soft piece of bagel this morning: he tried but spit it out. The Vet said he was having trouble just breathing. He had lost another pound and a half s
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07/06/2019
Mongolia is full of nomadic people who live on and off the land and the animals they keep. They live simply but fully. When I was there I experienced both ends of the spectrum, the very real and hardworking, and those who had inherited the family herd and had a 150K Land Rover outside their Ger (
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07/06/2019
There are ten times more animals in Mongolia than there are people. While a third of the population of the country lives in the capital, Ulan Bator, the rest of the people absolutely live in the middle of nowhere with grazing animals everywhere. Meandering livestock and other wild animals are all
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07/05/2019
I enjoyed my time in Mongolia. I saw things I could never imagine and was stretched again and again. Here are but some of the creatures I saw and observed during my trip. Many are only found in Mongolia. I visted most of the regions of the country and some only reside in a small area. In any even
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07/04/2019
My trip to Mongolia was not easy but was worthwhile. It took twenty nine hours getting there which was difficult and hard. Coming back was a far different thing though and there was a period when I wondered if I would ever get home. I was stuck waiting in Mongolia for a plane to take me to Beijin
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07/04/2019
Well it looks like I may be traveling longer than I expected or wanted. The weather in Bejing in really bad and my flighht from Mongolia probably won't make the connection to New York. There is no word here but it isn't looking good. Luckily I have friends from my trip who live in Bejing. There a
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07/02/2019
I am leaving in about six hours to go home from my Mongolia adventure. I have been here for about two weeks. The diversity of the country is great and its idiosyncrasies are even greater. In much of the country there are no roads: not bad roads, just none. So drivers just go through fields with n
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07/01/2019
I have been off the grid for several days flying and hiking around most of Mongolia. As I write this I am a Best Western hotel in Ulaanbaater, that is a real luzury. It is far from Best Western's I have known. In any event I will have a good nights sleep in a clean and beautiful place and then my
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07/01/2019
