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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