Making an early start this morning, we met the group at 5:30 AM and walked with our bags to the train station. Destination Ulan Baator, train leaves in an hour, I am watching the luggage while my personal assistant goes to find coffee for the two of us. That flowered shopping bag is not fashionable, but it contains all our food for the two day train trip. Hope we actually bought what we thought we were at the supermarket, based on Geoff’s language skills we think we know what was on the labels, more or less. Hoping there is no cat food in the mix. 
Author: Elizabeth
Low-key occasional trip blogger....
On our way!
Heading out on the UP Express. Who’s got the best hiking shoes? Gobi Desert, here we come.
Planning and packing…
We are now at that stage of thinking about what we need to take. It has to cover us in warmer and cooler places, in hotels and in a yurt (!) and sleeping on a train. Plus there is the worry of trying to keep the cats from sleeping on the neat piles of travel clothes and goods. Hmmm…..