the REAL MONGOLIA...

    I know it's been a while.  After a rather exhausting 2007, I decided to spend some time doing what I love most.  No, I did not spend the past 5 months locked up in a eucalyptus-scented steam room making hot simultaneous love to Kristi Yamaguchi and Michelle Kwan (though that would be rather excellent).  Come the turn of the 2007/2008 new year, I made the decision to throw my asian, over-achieving guilt out the window and just travel.  Now you must understand that I'm not that small-town farm boy who has never left Kansas.  I have been lucky enough to travel to some pretty cool places in my lifetime.  So this wasn't one of those "I've never left my home town and haven't seen shit besides the state fair, mama" kind of thing.  But for some reason, something inside me snapped this past new years.  My inner Jacques Cousteau, my desire to explore the vast unknowns of our planet, somehow attacked me with the strength of 1,000 meerkats in heat.  And with that, I grabbed my passport, my wallet-sized pictures of Kristi and Michelle, and departed on a rather random journey that has lasted on and off throughout 2008.  In the past 5 months, I have been to Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, Mongolia, England, Netherlands, Canada, and Olympic Gardens.  I literally just got back from a trip 10 days ago and I'm already trying to engineer an excuse to go to Argentina before August.  What is wrong with me?  I need help.  I think I might have been roofied with a vile of travel-crack by some naughty seductress at my local tavern.

Oh whatever.  I shant not worry.  Like any forest fire, it'll burn itself out once there is nothing else left to burn.  And for me, that would be cash.

Which leads me to MONGOLIA.  If you have never been, I highly recommend you visit asap.  Why?  Well, I could spend hours pontificating on why this land-locked nation is one of the most fascinating and misunderstood places on earth.  And we could discuss the fact that many of us have committed incest in our lives due to the recent scientific discovery that much of Asia's population's ancestry can be traced back to just one man, Genghis Khan.  Oh yes, think twice before you get naughty with your significant other...you might just be making love to your sister.  Instead, I present you this video documenting the journey of 4 lads into the heart of Mongolia.  Enjoy.