Anyway, that's beside the point which is that I ran across the fairly well-known A Hike Across America by Peter Jenkins residing next to the somewhat-obscure (to me, anyway) Across China by the same author. I browsed through it, looking for something about Mongolia (I may not know everything about the place but it's on the same continent as China last time I looked). Turns out the author and his guide had roamed some windswept Mongolian plains, so I scanned through the photos. There were several of some scrappy little horses so I thought I'd ask my better half if he'd seen any animals.
Here's the latest:
The wildlife here is herds of goats and some sheep, and a few horses, but all domestic. The dogs, however, are huge, with fluffy brown coats that puff them up even bigger, so they look more like yaks. There are very few birds and we only saw one tiny snake, ...ants and a few beetles; rarely we have seen the iridescent beetles like scarabs. I had one mosquito land on my arm, but killed it when it started sucking, so that line will not replenish and think there are few relatives left.
I hope he's taking lots of pictures, because I want to see those yak doggies! Meanwhile, his socks are getting quite a workout:
We are getting further afield, so the hikes are getting longer returning to camp.
Good thing he has laundry service. Speaking of which, I'm off to do another load of my own and then hopefully give my own socks a workout hiking with my summer walking partners.
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