Day 28:

I've been in Chinese territory for the last couple of hours. Those hours have been spent rumbling along the railroad tracks in the Chinese part of the Gobi Desert. I like my bunkmates more than all of my previous companions. They don't speak English so well, but they've kept me filled up with cheap Chinese bread and beer.

I intended to write more last night but I managed to fall asleep in the middle of the last paragraph. I notice now that I prefaced that summary of recent Mongolian politics with the word "first." This suggests that I had more points to make, but I'm afraid that I can't really recall them right now.