Background  It was the summer of 2013. My three kids and I were staying in Pokhara, Nepal, and thinking about where we should go for the summer.   The previous years we had spent our summers relaxing in India, but this time I felt  I wanted something else. For years, I had dreamed of visiting Mongolia, and had been waiting for the ‘perfect’ moment. I knew summer would be the best season to go there (not too cold) so I started looking into how I could make it happen.   I discovered that flights to China were really cheap, and worked out that we could stay there for a month, and then cross the…