I Can Find the Desert Anywhere

Wow, now this is a surprise, and a pleasant one.  My most excellent friend Kerry Noonan found pictures on the CIEE website from the Silk Road professional development tour that I took several years ago.  Kerry and several other folks from Champlain were in China at the same time - we all met up in Beijing - but they took off on a separate CIEE trip, leaving me to go my own way (which is the norm).  Here I am bestride a camel out in the wilds of western China.  As my friends like to point out, even when I go to China I end up drawn to the desert or the Islamic world.

I'm doing my best Aurel Stein impersonation.