Taking the first 'Steppe'

Singapore
May 28th, 2009
1:11pm

Days, Weeks, Months...they go by faster than you think. I started this trip almost two months ago. Those two months seems like forever. I try to lay back and think about the places that I have been to and seen but after awhile they all start to blend into each other. I am grateful for the pictures and for this blog that I've been writing. And now I am heading onto the last leg of my trip before I make my way home and to Beercation.

Mongolia now stands straight ahead of me. I leave for the airport in 4 hours and then I jump on a plane 6 hours after that. I keep looking at pictures and researching the places that I will be going and seeing and all I can think is that I hope it lives up to the idealized notion that I have been harboring in my mind. I am not sure why Mongolia has been that 'place' for me. Not sure what mystifies me so much about it. I just feel like I will get there, out in the steppe, staring into a vast landscape with nothing but the sound of wind in my ears, and I will be home.

Ill hope that this is the case. That I haven't built it up too much. Perhaps I have.

But I'll know soon enough...

“Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.”
-Robert Collier