http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/JFrame/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from JFrame en-us Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:41:54 +0000 Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:41:54 +0000 A Long HiatusSo I last wrote over three months ago in China. Since then I have covered a long distance and am about to cover a good bit more. From Southern China my brother and I headed down to North Vietnam. We ventured into the highlands and saw the very colorful markets. We were very disappointed though because coming from China where everyone is somewhat polite to you and then to being hassle http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Colorado/blog-42810.html First of all sorry for not finishing my story about the Kyrgyz horse trip but I got really disillussioned by writing it hopefully I will finish later when I get the time. For now more about the present time and what has been happening. Thanks for reading and writing me back it's great to hear from everyone.When you travel you have bad days and you have brilliant ones excuse my British. Sometime http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Shaanxi/Xi-an/blog-24513.html Kyrgyz Horse Trip Part 3 of 3So first of all sorry to all of you waiting on the edge of your seat drooling to read the outcome of the adventure through Middle Earth. I have spent the last month in Mongolia seeing the sights and giving myself a much needed weeklong break doing nothing after three months of hard travel. I do apologize for the long delay. In the meantime I have posted many new photos http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Kyrgyzstan/blog-20350.html So two years and change have passed since I moved toKazakhstan. I learned some Russian experiencedvillage life and have gained much patience. I alsoread a good deal studyied for and took the GMATapplied to graduate business school taught at a localhigh school and learned what I really want from life.That last one was not just a realization but aculmination of years of indecision. It is too di http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Kyrgyzstan/blog-20129.html After writing a few updates and them getting erasedI have lost a good bit of enthusiasm but still I havea really long time to wait for my next train. I amheading up to Mongolia but I am still in China. Thetrains are so crowded and getting a ticket sometimesrequires you to wait in a line of 50 people. It isridiculous how many people there are here. I thinkthey should just cram them in like in India http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Kyrgyzstan/blog-20133.html So I left Kazakhstan after two long years. I said goodbye to the people in my village and hit the road. I was accompanied by my friend Nagima to the border and I found a free ride to Kirovka. On the way we passed the dam on the Talas river with a huge head of Lenin with his huge chin pointing out of the water. The driver turned out to live across the street from my friend so he was able to drop m http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-11973.html So after almost 2 years of volunteer work in Kazakhstan I am hitting the road. The road consists of no roads to begin with as a friend and I will ride horses across the mountians of Kyrgyzstan to the Chinese border at the Torugart Pass. Hopefully this venture will be successful since there is now turbulence in the region and it might just be too dangerous. In China I plan on going throughout the W http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Kazakhstan/blog-9193.html