And near Kampyr-Tepe, we were invited to the site of a Buddhist lamasery, where the mendicant monks lived underground in a labyrinth, to protect them from the terrible heat and cold of the plain.
And if you do have to go outside in the extreme cold, cover every part of your body from your nose to your toes and remember mittens are better than gloves.
The extraordinary fact is that we don't know which is more likely, a future offering us eons of perishing frigidity or one giving us equal expanses of steamy heat.
That was really fun just to see how many kids there were - - who were willing to come on a Saturday all the way up there in the cold and, you know, run together.
Not only that, he sometimes drove off as they were making their way to the back of the bus, leaving them penniless and without a ride in the freezing cold.