Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar

Been sitting in my bathtub. It's nice to own a bathtub, and to sit in it.

Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver

Checking in for the flight, the Canadian airline rep for Air China looked inside my passport and asked where I was going.

"Mongolia."

She flipped a couple pages of my passport and asked: "Where is your visa?"

"U.S. citizens don't need Mongolian visas." At least, they didn't last year. I hope that hasn't changed. Maybe should've checked on that.

Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver

Passed through downtown Vancouver on a Saturday night: the city is populated with nothing but stylish twenty-something-year-olds. Some French speakers.

U.S.A., Washington

Train is really the most comfortable way to travel. It's basically a moving building.

U.S.A., Oregon, Sherwood

Back to Mongolia next week.