For Today's Day of the Dead, this comes to you from the dashboard of our 'taxi' in Ulan Batur - a Mercedes Benz (we had to pay extra)
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Why are you showing us a pile of styrofoam?...Well, for one, it is a particularly LARGE pile of styrofoam, neatly bundled - but the main reason is that when I was in Mongolia, I scoured the capital for bits of throwaway styrofoam, so I could package my bicycle- at one point even dumpster diving, and then I nearly got in trouble for 'stealing' some guys livelihood (I gave him a few bob for it, though) - then the day I come back to Korea, this is the kind of excess and contrast that I witness on the street...
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although I've lived in Korea many years, and have watched nearly as many MASH episodes as the next guy, I never really associated 'choppers' with Korea - but finally got a good closeup of this service helicopter in Sorak San Mountain which was ferrying building materials for a temple being built halfway up the mountain.
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Mongolia was full of fun-looking beer labels. Of course this one didn't pan out so well, sort of tasted like the stub end of Ol' Winnies cigar doused in water...
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mongolian knobs (not as bad as it sounds)
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Welcome to my 'Hometown' of Portland...follow the river south through town, just down and to the left of Lake Oswego, you'll find a very amusingly named town. Apparently town fathers finally got a clue that tourists, especially British ones, were having a lot of fun, so the name no longer appears on maps- replaced by a blank spot- a bit of a shame, really. The old name makes you wonder if everyone in town is like David on The Office...
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I travelled with three polish guys, two polish girls, and another American who teaches at my university. Here Ana, a self-confessed ketchup junkie, demonstrates just how good ketchup can spice up any meal inside of a Mongolian yurt (Ger)
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a natural swimming pool at Soraksan National Park. This emerald-green water is quite a bit different than the turquoise/carribean blue color I photographed ten years ago.
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