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Mongolia Part 1

I've been asked by several people at work to see more pictures of my trip. I also know some of you would like to see some, and I'd like to have some pictures at work for backgrounds, so I'm going to start posting several pictures at a time. My pc is pretty slow in the uploading process, so it will take a while, but in the meantime, enjoy!



Our team at the Portland Airport before taking off.


Our "home", two gers that were put up for us.


This is the inside of a ger


Don't you love the wallpaper? These are the beds we slept on for three weeks!


Ah, the bathroom. Girls on one side, boys on the other.


Yep, we have a picture of the toilet (if it can be called that)! Be careful how you sit! Too far forward and you get splatter, too far back and...yep, splatter. Oh, and don't scoot unless you want slivers! After three weeks we were pretty used to it, and it leaned a bit more to the side than in this picture...


Here's the cabin we worked on. The roof came off and the floor was added. On the side here is where the root cellar entrance was.


And the "finished" project! This is as far as we got on our trip, but still amazing.


Here's the root cellar. The support beam for the roof of the cabin was on this dirt. It started to dry and crumble so we had to take it out and put in new support.


Here's the team pulling out the two ton chunk of cement. You can't see but our team is on the left pulling. No engines here, just braw rute strength!




Lastly, for today, one of my favorite pictures!
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