He might well be right, Tina. I like the character of the herder in that shot.
Is it not incredibly cold where you are?
Chris
> On 29 Jan 2017, at 12:21, Tina Manley <tmanley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> 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
> <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!
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