Photos from Mongolia - Close of Service
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Sweeping view from greening steppes, through dunes, to mountains, and up to the
sky.
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Camel close up with view of T nose steering wheel.
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Camel goo goo eyes.
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Camel toe. In perspective with Kerry's foot.
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Surleg and Khadaa doing strong man impersonations at a well with Amraa and
driver butt in background.
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Campsite during a countryside trip.
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Our group climbing around the medicinal spring.
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Amraa taking water from a point where the spring comes up from the rocks.
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Offerings at an ovoo. Surleg is tossing rice to the gods.
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Amraa, Kerry, and I at Bayanzag.
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Bayanzag.
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Camel from rider's viewpoint.
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English radio show with Jessica, Otgoo, Pat, and Inkhtsetseg the DJ in the new
radio station.
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English radio show with the Americans and DJ.
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Far too brazen mouse in my ger.
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Camel resisting stopping. Only one lead line is used to steer.
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Our camel caravan with guide, Khadaa, Sugee, Kerry, and Amraa.
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Our faithful guide holding our camels as we ran off into the dunes.
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Taking a moment on the crest of a dune.
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Khadaa taking the best way down a dune.
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A group shot of our camel caravan.
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Being rowed out on Khuvsgul lake toward the remaining ice sheet.
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Bogd Khaan's Winter Palace Museum gates.
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Night view of Ulaanbaatar from Zaison(aka the outside bar) with Monkhlei and
Zulaa.
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Monkhlei, Zulaa, Kerry, Batbuyan, and Jessica at Zaison with weeping Mongolian mosaic
in the background.
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Monkhlei's cousins.
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Monkhlei's cousins and my hosts for a crash pad.
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Countryside view of one of our many vodka stops.
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Group shot of people Kerry and I shared a van to Omnogovi with at one of our
many vodka stops.
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Khuvsgul lake's Khatgal port with ice sheet.
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Beautiful full moon when it still wasn't getting dark till after 10, but shaky
because I was afraid of a nearby dog.
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Fortune telling knuckle bone game.
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Kerry finally shaving using a compass mirror in my ger.
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My beloved dog Khen Be.
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Ice bowels at Yolyn Am.
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Amraa in an ice cavern cut by the stream at Yolyn Am.
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Ovoo overlooking Khatgal sum, decorated with revered horse heads.
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The honoring of a beloved horse by placing their head at a high place.
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My frightening fulfillment of a promise to my father that I would ride a yak.
This was along the roadside in Khuvsgul.
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One of the many delays on the 2 hour ride that became 6.
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Becky speaking special English on the phone.
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Tumour akh and his sister Enkhtsetseg.
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Tumour drawing a camel.
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My first Tsaagan Sar. Celebrated in the States with Mongolian RPCV Chris and
his South American RPCV friend.
cntdwnclndr1.jpg Our M11 group at the SF
airport on our way to Mongolia.
cntdwnclndr10.jpg Pimp Daddy Ryan with
his fly girls Cindy, Linda, Laura, Rebecca D., girl Chris, and Leanne.
cntdwnclndr11.jpg Get onto the busà for
some sort of seminar-similar to Beelzebub.
cntdwnclndr12.jpg M11s welcoming M12s
at the airport in UB.
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PC office.
cntdwnclndr2.jpg The large room we sat
in for classes during PST.
cntdwnclndr3.jpg Hike during PST.
Melody, Jay, Ramsey, Pat, Mike Maaaajor, DEAn, and Ranger Bob.
cntdwnclndr4.jpg Alphabet party to
celebrate (some of us) learning Mongolian during PST. This was one of the
traditional music/dance performances. áTeacher, Pat, Cindy, Leanne, Bob, Jay, Mike Kin, Sarah W., Rebecca,
and Matt E. on moirn Khuur.
cntdwnclndr5.jpg Random need for a group
shot for the countdown calendar in the PC lounge-back in the good old days when
the VCR worked. Linda, Laura, Peter, Cindy, Jessica(me), Pat, Matt, Ariel(a lil
bit of him), My, front: Matt Brophy, Aleana, and Jay(a lot of him).
cntdwnclndr6.jpg Belly shot at the PDM
4/2001.
cntdwnclndr7.jpg Art by Linda ôIf it
made sense it wouldn't be Peace Corps Mongoliaö.
cntdwnclndr8.jpg the Diekempers with
site mate Jay in the middle making a poetic statement with props. áôHear no mutton, see no mutton, eat no
mutton.ö
cntdwnclndr9.jpg Sustainable Development's
Jeff and boy Chris with groupies. (`original' groupie Melody not present)
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English lesson at German camp with the cook and Zulaa.
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German's camp with visitors.
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Outward bound m11 travelers Becky, Mindy, and Melody sending off with a sexy
pose in the desert.
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Becky, Mindy, and Melody at the windy Bayanzag.
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Crazed from being in the desert the we all invade Pat's house as his girlfriend
looks on.
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Melody and Jessica (me) saying goodbye to a foxy passenger departing.
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Jangar DJ-ing at the Gobi Wave FM
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Pissy me waiting with Khishgee at the airport in the COLD.
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Still pissy me with Tom still waiting at the airport.
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Pat got overexcited with picture taking at the garden in Khurmen sum.
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Oko and I listening to Akhuu explain Mongoled gardening.
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Tom with his girls, Oko and I.
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My friend Surleg camping with his parents, Batbold and Tsendsuren in the Govi.
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Bilgee the carver at a geeeer par-dee at Eva's with Bob attending to the disco
ball.
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Ramsey and I next to the commonly broken beds in the Medical Dorms in UB during
the last week of PST.
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The ôstepsö to making a good decision at the PDM.
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A store bought photo of the Naadam? Celebration parade where they dress in
traditional costume and carry the banner of peace.
Tue Jul 9 14:57:07 2002