Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Day 25: Feels a bit like home




Couldn't this picture be taken in the American West? As we traveled from Bishkek to Issyk Kul, I couldn't help but wonder where in the world I had ended up. With flat, dry plains and red, scoria rock canyons, the landscape spoke to me in the same way it might on a cross-state trip in Wyoming. How can a place so far away feel so close to home?



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