Most of the nomadic families have solar panels and satellite dishes. They do
not speak or understand English. We had an excellent interpreter with us.
Tina
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> On Jan 30, 2017, at 6:01 AM, John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Locating the site of the photo is easy with Google Earth being ~300km south
> west of the country's capital city.
>
> Was the camel-herder fairly representative of other members of the rural
> population in Mongolia in as much as he had some essential requisites of
> modern day living, must obviously have been able to communicate in
> understandable English with Tom and Tina and was familiar with current world
> news.
>
> jh
>
>
>
>> On 1/29/2017 8:21 AM, Tina Manley wrote:
>> 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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