by Ben Randall | May 31, 2014
Day: 264 Distance covered: 34,173 km (24,234 miles) Subjects found: 75! In 2010, I was living in a misty mountain town in far northern Vietnam. Many young Hmong girls would come to town from the surrounding villages to sell handicrafts and guided treks to tourists. A...
by Ben Randall | May 29, 2014
Day: 262Distance covered: 34,119 km (21,201 miles)Subjects found: 74 At last, Marinho and I have the name of M’s village. Today we went on a reconnaissance mission to the town nearest the village, with an outside hope of arranging a meeting. The town centres...
by Ben Randall | May 28, 2014
Day: 261Distance covered: 34,073 km (21,172 miles)Subjects found: 74 I’ve spoken to M five times in the past two days. It has been extremely difficult to determine her precise location, as M herself seems to have little understanding of where she is. There are...
by Ben Randall | May 26, 2014
Day: 259Distance covered: 34,063 km (21,166 miles)Subjects found: 74 Using what tools we have and the information that she herself has been able to provide, Marinho and I have located the area of China in which M now lives. It’s a very small area by Chinese...
by Ben Randall | May 24, 2014
Day: 254Distance covered: 31,883 km (19,811 miles)Subjects found: 74Marinho and I were searching for fourteen people in China’s Yunnan province; we found eleven. The other three we’ve struck from our list – our single biggest disappointment since the...