Drifting into the West

Today I leave Beijing after five months, heading westward to Tibet. By train it will take nearly fifty hours, passing through Xi'an then Golmud at the edge of the Gobi, before turning south through the Tibetan plateau. From Lhasa it will be two weeks by bus and foot along the Friendship Highway, which connects China with the Nepali capital of Kathmandu, before eventually arriving at Mount Everest.

I return stateside in June; photos and thoughts to follow.