[higeyuki]

I remember the article saying he had wanted to go to Mongolia all along and that this was an added bonus to his experience.

>"For a long time, he had dreamed of traveling across Mongolia on a bike. Now that his son was older, why not do it with him?"

The article even says that you do not have to go to Mongolia to do this.

>"You don't have to go all to the other side of the world just to bond with your children, says Caroline Knorr, the parenting editor for Common Sense Media, a non-profit organization that educates parents about media and technology."