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 e have been traveling south east toward the Chinese border and now we will turn east and slightly north to stay well north of the border.  We have entered an area where there is more sand. Sometimes footing is soft, making walking difficult. In these conditions one can be excused for a growing dislike of sand. We are definitely not going to stop to build sand castles along the way. The camels with their padded feet do well in these conditions. Their feet don't sink down as ours do. Sometimes they grunt or let out an ear splitting bellow over some imagined discomfort. I say imagined because when we inspect them for displaced loads or other problems there is usually no problem at all. But their bellows do succeed in getting our attention. A cookie seems to make everything right again.
Occasionally we see clumps of grass surrounding a small pool of water—a small oasis in this parched landscape. Most of these water holes are too saline for us although Tom and Jerry can tolerate the salt. We do have a small desalinization filter with us for emergencies.
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