[Leica] IMG: Camel Herder and Philosopher

[Douglas Barry]

I thought you were Siberia bound per previous emails, Tina?

On the pic. I love the baby lying beside him and the colours. The Mongolians 
are a lovely people based on the couple I've met over here. Hopefully, the 
Trump created airport crisis has blown over by the time you return, as 
what's going on just now seems very, nay extremely, odd. Seven countries 
shunned and the red carpet out for hijacking Saudis - some mistake surely? 
The law of unintended consequences could blow up in the faces of the new 
administration yet.

Douglas



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tina Manley" <tmanley at gmail.com>
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Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2017 12:21 PM
Subject: [Leica] IMG: Camel Herder and Philosopher


> PESO:
>
> I'm posting most of my immediate photos on FB because it's so much easier,
> but I want to pass along the interesting conversation we had with this 
> guy:
>
> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/164900138/large
>
> We just had the most interesting conversation with a camel-herder in his
> ger in the middle of the Gobi Dessert. He has a solar panel hooked up to a
> car battery with a satellite dish with over 100 TV channels. When we
> entered the ger, the whole family was watching an American movie dubbed in
> Mongolian. Tom mentioned that we watch almost no TV except the news and 
> the
> father of the family said that the news was so depressing that they had to
> balance it with something cheerful. Of course, the talk turned to Trump.
> The herder believes that Trump will build the wall between the US and
> Mexico and that will anger Central and South America so much that they 
> will
> stop trading with the US and only trade with China. China will replace the
> US as most powerful nation. He grew up in Mongolia during Soviet Socialism
> and says you cannot trust Russia. He said that with Russia and the US 
> there
> was always a wolf and a rabbit. Now Putin is the wolf and Trump is the
> rabbit. I love travel!
>
> That's it!
>
> Tina
>
> -- 
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