The Weekend Rambler

Always Authentic. Always on its own path.

Category: China

  • Please Take the Train to Mongolia

    There are a lot of ways to get to Mongolia, and not a lot of them make sense. If you’re coming from the US, the easiest way is to fly to a hub like Seoul or Beijing and hop to Ulaanbaatar from there. But that could set you back $800 each way. If you’re from…

  • Dusty Beijing

    Beijing is dusty and hazy. If you open the weather app on your phone, it will probably show you the temperature and then under it say something like, “Partly Cloudy” or “Sunny”. But in Beijing, it’s a bit different. So with a “Very Unhealthy Air Quality” city ahead of me, I strapped on my face…