198 - Train to Mongolia, Train food (free!), stop at border at midnight, train leaving, Baatarkhuu

199 - Arrive in Mongolia, like Hoth and Tattooine combined, Hostel picked me up, planning trip, food at mongolian restaurant, relax

200 - Saw official ceremony at Sukhbaatar Sq, Natural History Museum, Mongolian History Museum, Monastery, Fried rice

201 - Guest at English class, S. Sq, Choijin Monastery, Black out at hostel, made omelets

202 - Hockey game in morning, went with Egi to Naraan Tuul Black Market, bought boots and gloves, winter palace, Zaisan hill, watched movies

203 - walked to "immigration office", none there, wrestling palace, intellectual museum

204 - Long trip in morning to immigration office, bus to airport to walking to officer driving me, laundry, relaxing, party at night with Blade Runner

205 - Left on 2 week tour, Stone hills, herd of gazelles, lunch, donated gasoline to a woman, stayed in ger in rocky area

206 - Driving, took girl to village, white stupa rock area, dinosaurs, camels, stars

207 - Driving, dead horse, flock of vultures, camel with newborn baby, shopping at village, ger in village

208 - Hiking at national park, ice pond and sliding around, first time to dig out car, sandstorm, stayed in windy ger

209 - March 7 - Sand dunes, sand in everything, camel riding, same ger, more prepared for cold

210 - Stuck in the snow bank, took 5 hours to dig ourselves out, ram horn, rocks and mud, random late night ger, buuz

211 - Flaming cliffs, ongiin khiid monastery, looked like Indiana Jones FOA, met other van halfway on trip in middle of desert, random ger, ichinoro kid with no neck

212 - More driving, river rest stop, early arrival at ger, horse riding, waterfall, goat with premature birth, splitting wood, drinking and stars

213 - Snowed in, walked around ger, herded sheep and goats to grass, went back and played cards, chopped wood

214 - Drove to Kharkhoorn, went to main temple, map place on hill, market with shifty guy, private Mongolian music concert with guy from book, Ryo's goodbye party, lots of drinking and singing, especially Weeble's Donald fers your trousers

215 - Ryo left, drove to lake, sunset over frozen lake, slid around, played cards in ger

216 - Drove, stopped at a crater, and at a sacred wishing tree, wished for nothing, stopped at random ger, animal shelter, walked to top of hill, Alma talked about Mongolian culture a bit

217 - Drove to nice ger that hosted many tourist on same tour, hiked up mountain and almost slipped and fell, baby goats and sheep, rode horses out into field, retrieved newborn goat and came back, galloped on horse, hiked up mountain again to see sunset, hearts to 100

218 - saw newborn goat in morning, Wild Horse park, Saw 6 horses, movie with weird accent narrator, Got back from trip, shower, relaxing, BDs Mongolian BBQ, Brau Haus pub

219 - Relaxing, checking mail and stuff, St Patrick's Day, Grand Khan Pub, drinking and singing

220 - Ger building factory, Could not find caribbeaner, got postcards

221 - Went to Black Market to get leather (8500 T), needle (500), thread (1000), started working on bag and design, Indiana Jones Raiders of Lost Ark

222 - March 20 - Sewed together main sections of the bag, watched movies, Big commotion at night

223 - Worked more on bag, got hard plastic at State Department Store, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

224 - Updated iPod, Walked to stationary store to get superglue, finished most of the bag, watched Indiana Jones Last Crusade

225 - Updated journal and posted on internet, postcards, finished bag, uploaded photos, generally productive day, downloaded and watched The Fantastic Mr Fox

226 - More laziness, Mongolian BBQ with annoying American "bro" and other people including Japanese girls who were very entertaining, downloaded and watched where the wild things are

227 - Sat around the hostel, ate more buuz, reaching almost the limit of buuz, then got on the train with Julie (France) and the American and Scottish