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The Frontier Runner

“You take the 32-hour train because the 4-hour flight would be 'missing something'. You are missing showers.”

Dunhuang, Ürümqi, the grasslands, the end of the line. You go where the guidebooks thin out and the journey is half the point, which is exactly why your photos do not look like anyone else's.

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