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Despite our sleepdeprived daze, we soaked it all in, pausing for tea and a hookah on tiny plastic chairs along the Bosphorus.Our last stop in Istanbul was a tea house for a quick fortunetelling based on the dregs of Jessies Turkish coffee. When Jessie asked “Will we make it to Mongolia?” the answer came back “Yes, in September. No, replica Tag Heuer WJ1311.BA0572 WoMen's watch actually, between October or November.” Yikes! But given that the fortune was filtered through two different languages, well just chalk it up to a mistranslation. Fortune tellers are not going to keep the Creeping Blandness Prevention Group from reaching Mongolia by our deadline of August 14!
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