Tuesday September 12 - Monday September 18, 2006 I'm cheating a little here by labeling this as Mongolia, since it is actually Russia, Mongolia, and China, but figure that you'll allow this as creative. I've decided to just lump all the days together as they were fairly similar, being on a train for almost 7 days, as you can imagine. The good news is that, overall, it was a great journey. I got along with Caryl and Darragh, my cabin mates, very well. They were both great to talk to. They traveled for a year and then were home for three months before starting out again on this shorter three month journey. The Chinese woman, Dong was her last name, was nice as well but slept almost the whole time, except for meals. Towards the end
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