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POOF! Here I am.
- TC
- I love to get up early, go on a long walk, come in and read the Bible while drinking good coffee. If that all happens, any day is good. If it doesn't . . . I'm a bear (until I kiss my wife).
Thar's Gold in them Thar Hills!
Prior to the 2000 elections, chad was a word in the vocabulary of mining peoples. It's the waste material after mineral extraction. Park Hills, MO has several Chad (or Chat) Dumps around the city. Anyway, up north I met an industrious miner who combs through the gold mining chads when he has opportunity and occasionally finds one of these little beauties.
A Road Less Traveled
One danger faced in the countryside is from the remoteness. As you can see, one set of tracks (ours) means no one had used this road since the snow fell. Shortly after this pic we doubled back and found a pass with more traffic. Rule #1 NEVER throw caution to the wind, especially when it never stops blowing.
Better than a 20 Gauge
While at Naadam stadium you can pose while getting your hand ripped off by the talons of a super raptor. This is a tradition of the Kazakh people, but is mistaken by tourists to be indigenous to the Mongols. This fellow bolted after I took the shot and charged right at me. Too bad the camera couldn't focus on it. It would have been a fine picture of some Mongol kids scared out of their wits.
Got goats?
UB is the New York city of Mongolia, but how many trucks of goats crossed Times Square today? Happens all day here ;-)
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