Finally back connected with the world

Hey guys, I'm glad to be back and connected. I've been without internet connections for 5 days now. I've loved were I've been in the Altai mountains very close to Mongolia and China. We have been on a bus for 8 hours and traveled 400km. The funniest story to add to the blog today---Cindy Derosa and I were walking down the hall in our new motel in Academgordok and a Russia girl said, I know you. She was pointing at Cindy. She said Chaplin. Our eyes got big. That was the disco in Barnual!!! She had seen Cindy on the dance floor 9 nights ago and remembered her!!! I'm so proud of my room mate, she is making a name for herself all over Russia. The Russian girl is a post graduate student that is 200km from home for a conference. We laughed so hard!!!!!!!!!