Breaking camp early we headed back to Ulaanbaatar. We stocked up our bulk bins at our last chance at a real grocery store and restocked the BAR!
With our stores aboard we said goodbye to the only big city in Mongolia and headed south. Just like in Alaska, 80% of the total population lives within 50 miles of their largest city.
Today we would make it halfway to the heart of the Gobi. Leaving UB we traveled once again over rolling grasslands and small mountain ranges before finding sand and scrub...and warmer temps.
After eleven hours of driving muddy tracks we landed on a small well-drained slope on front of a huge advancing thunderstorm. Cook groups attempted to start dinner as we set up tents. And then the wind and rain came and we hunkered down in the truck to ride out the storm. Too many beers, wine, and vodka later the storm passed and the crews were back to work.
It rained and blew all night and in the morning we were all pretty tired.
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