Tomorrow, I leave on a month-long trip that my friend Nate and I have been planning since last year.  I am flying in Shanghai to visit my brother, then going to Beijing to meet Nate.  From there, we will take the Trans-Siberian railroad up through Mongolia, moving west across Russia until Novosibirsk.  At this point, we will travel south to visit the former country of Tuva (now a part of Russia).  Finally, we will move back up north and west, finally ending our trip in St. Petersburg.

I hope to post updates here in every city we stop in.  I will be back in New York on July 24th.