Some say everyday is a gift. If so, these 11 days in Xinjiang were gifts wrapped in quality colorful Hallmark paper with the extra curly bows on top. Yes, the weather was good. The tourism was low and sights were free from megaphone toting tour guides and multitudes of photo popping tourists. We experienced history, culture, scenic beauty, and pure and simple fun. In fact, we racked up 14 different modes of transportation on this trip, including: van, horse, boat, donkey cart, open bus/tram, train, ultralight plane, little ATV, bamboo sled, station wagon, airplane (of course), moving airport walkway, airport bus, and even camel!! Funny how you can be so foreign to a land and yet walk through it fearless, awed, and oddly accepted at some cursory level. So, while we certainly didn’t part with a
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