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Altai City
- Older in Altai Bike Expedition, 2006: By a Hair - Newer in Altai Bike Expedition, 2006: Images from Noey
There's a line in an old Kurt Vonnegut book that reads:
"A lion hunter in the jungle dark;
And a sleeping drunkard up in Central Park;
A Chinese dentist and a British queen;
All fit together in the same machine....."
I thought about that the other night when someone offered me a rooster head to eat, because, of course, I was the patriarch, the honored guest.
Noey and I were partying down in Altai City with our faithful Wang Jein, a lonely Chinese bachelor named Mal Lu Bein, who quotes the bible, Hemmingway, and Tolsty, and two young Phillipine women who were hoodwinked into coming to Altai City to teach English by modern era slave traders from Nigeria and Ghana. A Simon and Garfunkle tape was going around for the seventh time.
The next day we hooked up with the Chinese filmmaker we met a few weeks ago in Jeminay, rode into the mountains without our Bobs, ate a gutload of dead sheep, and staggered back to town to party again till midnight.
Missing the open steppe and mountains.
Tomorrow we take off to parallel the Mongol border, working south toward Urumqi.
There are a few technical problems with the phone connection, so there will not be a weekly post next week. Look to hear from us in about ten days.
Dated: 08/12/2006
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