Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Sunday, November 8, 2009
As I got ready for my Sunday shopping run this morning, a mysterious text arrived from our always-reliable driver: "I will be late. I am making my car." Nearly two hours later, I began to worry about him.
I called a mutual friend to help with communication since I couldn't get through to to our driver on the phone. From our mutual friend, I learned that the extreme overnight temperatures (-14 °F / -26 °C) had frozen our driver's engine block. He couldn't answer his phone because he was busy lighting a fire under his car in order to get it started.
Lighting a fire?
Nonetheless, he arrived shortly after that, in fine shape.
Wow, you gotta be tough in this country.
