I am happy to announce that Galen and I are far away from Yumen, the city near Drink Horse One Army, featured in this post and this post and to be featured in two more posts. We are happy about this because, if we were there, we might not be making our flights back to the United States.

Why?

Because, a few weeks after we left Yumen, someone there died of Bubonic Plague, and so, the Chinese government has sealed off the city.

Bubonic plague death in Yumen, China sparks quarantine: Xinhua

As the article notes, this has a strange relationship with our project because the Bubonic Plague was likely spread via the Silk Road to Europe, where it may have killed a third of people living on the continent.

Here are some photos we took as we passed through the city:

If you are seeing this right now, you can’t leave here, because you are in Yumen.

Someone we met in Yumen