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Our last day in the wild Mongolian Steppes has started. The usual breakfast of bread and jam follows a slow awakening. For the tenth time on this journey, I swear to myself that never again shall I touch a drop of vodka. I am looking forward to being in China again, where I will have to deal with the Mao-Tai on a daily basis and can leave vodka behind. I wonder what they drunk before the Russians arrived and imported vodka and their drunken habits. They probably got drunk on Airag. After breakfast, our things were quickly packed away and loaded in the car. We all sat down with a strong sense of anticipation: shall we run for the bus or does the hammer trick really work ???

Sadly back to UB

Degrubenc
2005-12-09 13:38:10

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Our last day in the wild Mongolian Steppes has started. The usual breakfast of bread and jam follows a slow awakening. For the tenth time on this journey, I swear to myself that never again shall I touch a drop of vodka. I am looking forward to being in China again, where I will have to deal with the Mao-Tai on a daily basis and can leave vodka behind. I wonder what they drunk before the Russians arrived and imported vodka and their drunken habits. They probably got drunk on Airag. After breakfast, our things were quickly packed away and loaded in the car. We all sat down with a strong sense of anticipation: shall we run for the bus or does the hammer trick really work ???

We start the engine once, it dies, we start the engine a second time, it dies, we start the engine a third time, it roars into life. Sleepy doesn’t waste anytime staying still while the engine runs and takes off at great speed towards the long and straight highways. We quickly rejoin the road and fall, one by one, as much as possible on those potholed roads, asleep. One of us stays on watch
most times to check that Sleepy does not join in the sleeping with us and veer of course. The road back to Ulan-Bataar is uneventful, we sing along to the same tapes as before, we tell each other wild Chinese tales of monkeys and dragons, of warriors and peasants.

We stop at the Sleepy's father's Ger for lunch. As we arrive, he is tendering the leather of some animal he killed recently. We all go into the Ger, we are shown photos of his proud past in the soviet army, at which we can only go Ohhhh and Ahhhh. We also see pictures of Sleepy in his wrestler uniform and we teach him a new word as a result: sexy baby!!!!

The father is extremely proud of his super modern Ger as he has recently installed a TV. This is placed at full volume during lunch, just to make sure we notice it. He also shows us proudly all of the channels ...

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