DAVID. KLEIN. authentic yurt man.

we'll post more later but this just couldnt wait. david klein is post worthy.

we are now in budapest. well, actually were in erd which is a small suburb of a suburb outside of budapest. it took us one metro and three buses to get here but its all worth it. we arrive at our new couch surfing host, david klein's, at about 8 pm. it was just getting to get darker but as we walk up the rock path there it was. an unusual white circular tent structure in the middle of a property. this my friends is also know as a mongolian yurt. yes david chose to have his yurt built in mongolia and shipped to hungary..it is the type of man that he is. we are convinced that we are staying with a famous hungarian mountain climber, philosopher, and indian guru on the side. thats right folks, david walked around india for 6 months with no shoes and no access to food. he now has guru status in that country. there's that.

after he built a bonfire, he gave us a quick tour of the yurt--one room so it's not that difficult but amazing nonetheless!--and the house which includes the study where this computer is located along with a tank of turtles and a massive quantity of books, a shower, toilet, and kitchen. so basically he owns a house but chooses to call the yurt home. we think its cool that even though he owns a house he sleeps and lives in the yurt. a slumber party occured last night.

we sat up for quite some time on blankets around the fire discussing a variety of topics. david claims his english isnt that good but considering he came to the US at the age of 15 to hitchhike across country, he speaks better english than we do. we covered a large amount of philosophy, including a few of his personal theories, marx and communism, hungarian history, human fears and several of david's adventure stories which we kept begging for more. we just need to share our favorite. david mountain climbs and once in alaska he basically got lost in a snow storm in which the other climbers had already pronounced him dead. for 3 days he and a fellow climber layed in their tent under the sleepingbags to protect themselves from the wind. there were no other options and he admitted it was a sudden realization of approaching death. as they realized the wind would soon blow off the top of the tent, they needed a new plan. the plan was to run as fast as they could towards an area where a crevice was located (usually crevices are avoided ya know) hoping to actually fall into the crevice. if they survived the fall, they would go from there but at least they wouldnt die from the wind. if they didnt survive, well...

these types of stories and more are what we are looking forward to for the next couple of days. basically we love it here in our mongolian yurt!!


a few of our favorite pics from david's many adventures

David at Burning Man


David in India