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Radio World

December 10, 2006

The PR blitz continues with this article about Gobi Wave in the December 6 issue of Radio World. CLICK HERE to download the article.

So we’ve figured out YouTube. Here’s the year in video clips. The Amazing Race The Amazing Race came through Mongolia on May 31. Read the backstory here. And see the best 37 seconds of the show right here: Tank Driving “I love eating the meat and shooting the guns.” -Jargalsaikhan Luce Mongolia Two weeks, two […]

The End

August 6, 2006

by Rachel Charlie and I will be back in Washington at dinnertime tomorrow, so this is goodbye. Writing this blog was good for us, and we are grateful for those of you who read it. We are working on our answers to “So, how was Mongolia?” and writing the blog helped us start to process […]

The Trip Home

July 22, 2006

By Charlie World travelers take note: Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taipei, Taiwan has free wireless internet. Or at least Terminal 2 has free wi-fi. Hookup to the SSID “HTY_FREE”. So here we are for the next three hours, waiting for the China Airlines plane that will finally take us to America, The Greatest Country […]

Wrapped Up

July 21, 2006

by Rachel Well, we are done. We had our last official Luce dinner this evening, and everyone has started to scatter. Some folks are staying in Asia, some are traveling for a few months, and others are heading back to start school and jobs. We fly tomorrow from here to Taipei, Taiwan to San Francisco […]

A Snow Leopard in Penang

July 21, 2006

by Raduga Meow and hello. My name is Raduga and I am a snow leopard. My new owners, Charlie and Rachel, brought me here to Penang, Malaysia far from my native Mongolia. Even though the climate is very different, I see it as a learning opportunity. We are staying at a big resort hotel on […]

The Epic, Mongol Style

July 17, 2006

By Charlie Well, it’s done. We left Mongolia about 36 hours ago. The Korean Air flight left on time, at 1:20 AM on Sunday, July 16. With the national Naadam Festival concluded, the flight was predictably packed with Koreans and other non-Mongolians fleeing the Land of Khan. I love to fly, even if I am […]

The Last Normal Day

June 30, 2006

By Charlie It’s Friday at 10 AM and we have no more boxes to pack, no more stuff to give away. If we needed to get on a plane this afternoon and fly home to America, we could. But we won’t. Our Luce Scholar colleagues will arrive here tomorrow and we’ll spend the next two […]

Packing Up

June 28, 2006

By Rachel We are not sad yet, exactly, but the beginning of sadness is here.

World Cup Action

June 28, 2006

By Rachel People ask if I’ll come back to Mongolia. I am sure I will, someday, and I might try to line it up with another World Cup. The games are all shown live (starting between 10 pm and 4 am) and again the next day. They are totally uninterrupted, and since I don’t really […]

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