A blog is born.

My name, should you not know, is Mark.

Tomorrow I will trundle onto a big, cumbersome aeroplane, which will lift on up into the clear blue sky, nose facing north. It will land many many miles away in autumnal Asia, where I'll debark bleary-eyed but satisfied, with yaks and misadventure in mind. I won't return home for an entire 5 months.

This here blog will document all the epochs of the trip, and then some.

So, without further ado...