I am from Santa Barbara, California, and I am trying to learn as much as I can about China and Mongolia.  I plan to come to China in 2008 and make my way to Mongolia and spend some months--mayb​e years.

UPDATE: I'LL BE AT LEAST RIDING OUT THE DECADE IN CHINA AND MONGOLIA

Pen Pal in Beijing, Xi'an, Taklamakan regions and all of Mongolia desired.  Someone to travel by train and backpack with in Mongolia and China.

I would like a Mongolian or Chinese Pen Pal.  I speak, in order: English, Spanish, French, German

Reading, writing, backpacking,​ camping, cross-countr​y skiing, bicycling, tennis, natural history, cooking, poetry, flute

Rock--maybe a 4 on the Mohs Scale

Koyaanisqaat​si, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Sleuth, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Man Who Would Be King

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Twain, Dickens, Mowat, Maugham, Kipling, London, Abbey

To what avail are a thousand youths without a blank spot on the map.
--Aldo Leopold