Starting today, I have five weeks left at home (including the Rancho, my summer home away from home even if it's a new home) before I leave for five weeks away. Travel anxiety is just a soft buzz now, but it's growing. Of the five weeks, it's three days in Rome, two weeks in Assisi (and if you're struck with a sudden urge to study with me, you can still register and because you're a reader of this blog I can get you a discount -- contact me at sjrozan@aol.com), three weeks in Mongolia (two of those trekking in the mountains in the west) and a day in Seoul (where they suddenly don't believe in evolution). This is a complicated trip: six flights (not including the internal Mongolia flights -- I think there are two of those), two completely different wardrobes, three currencies (and that's assuming I can get by with no money on my three hour layover in Moscow) and some inordinate number of time zones.

Why am I doing it?


Assisi streetscape

and


Gers on the steppe