Thanks for Reading! (Andrew)

Here's a post I wrote on my phone in the airport before leaving (with typos for authenticity):

After 41 days of adventure in China, Mongolia and Iussia with Cameron i am now in the St petersburg airport waiting to board a flight that will eventually take me to the uk.

To sum up, here are a bunch of things I will miss, and a few things I won't, in no particular order:

Miss : hilarious mullets in Russia, hilarious t-shirts in China ("Bob Damp" still makes me chuckle), "for men" drink, mystery meat (it's an adventure!), subway stations that look like museums, taking about my money in millions, discussing what animal or plant our food is, Putin jokes, Genghis khan (in drink form, sandwich form or otherwise), hiking in the Gobi, really cute stray dogs, street food, not feeling obligated to change socks and underwear everyday, making sweeping cultural observations and posting them on the internet, 2 litre beer bottles, the kababs in st petersburg, the samosa like things in mongolia, bonaqua and nonfu springs, zakety goose beer, the greasy smell in Mongolian restaurants, the egg pastries at kfc in China, the banya on lake Baikal, having an excuse to eat cup noodles.

Won't :mystery meat(a sandwich shouldn't be an adventure), having to hear about camerons most recent bristol scale reading at breakfast every morning, salmon roe flavoured chips, train showers, yurt showers, all other showers not in an actual shower, slow internet, informal taxis, getting my 5 to 10 from freeze dried packets mixed with my noodles, dealing with units of currency too small to buy anything, pit toilets, public toilets, public toilets that are actually pit toilets-as in the toilet at terminal 5 at st petersburg airport I just used (fewer vaulted glass ceilings more flush toilets? What do you guys think?), having to carry my own tp, having the tp unravel in my bag so that it looks like Im performing some kind of gross magic trick pulling it from bag before I go to the washroom every time, having at least three snorers and one go-getter early riser in my room every night, buying yoghurt instead if milk at the grocery, realizing that the jokes I posted on the internet are less hilarious than i originally thought, horse's milk, the hole in the bottom of my shoe that lets in the dirt and things that smell way too bad to be dirt, bins of used toilet paper beside toilets (even when the toilet is a pit. Like seriously, what are we saving it for somethinge?), lactose free icecream, agonizing between the most delicious and the least 'offensive ' (gastrointestinally speaking) options on the menu (these rarely coincide).

Thanks again for reading and thanks for a great trip Cameron. See you all at Christmas!

PS my flight has been delayed 30 mins now and I think there's something wrong with an engine because someone on a ladder is sticking their head in there. I only have 60 mins to make my connection in Moscow, which requires a trip through customs and immigration so might be signing off here a bit early... Stay tuned!