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Radigan Neuhalfen |
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Radigan Neuhalfen was born and grew up in rural North Dakota. He was born in 1977.
In 1994, he studied field archaeology near Fargo.
Mr. Neuhalfen was named a National Merit Scholar in 1995 and enrolled at Macalester College on a full academic scholarship. At Macalester, he studied anthropology with Jack Weatherford as his advisor.
In 1999, Mr. Neuhalfen participated in an internship program in Moscow, where he studied at Moscow State University and the Russian Academy of Sciences while working for an international development agency.
After leaving Moscow, Mr. Neuhalfen traveled and worked in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. He returned to Russia to work on an archaeological dig near the Ural Mountains. He continued eastward on the Trans-Siberian Railroad to Mongolia. Leaving Mongolia with a plan to return within five years, he went back into Russia and to Vladivostok. By Russian cargo ship, he traveled up the Far Eastern coast of Russia to the Arctic Circle, arriving in Nome across the Bering Strait by Alaskan bush plane.
Mr. Neuhalfen studied nautical archaeology in Bermuda in 2000.
In 2001, Mr. Neuhalfen was in Silicon Valley, working for a technology company during the Dot-com Boom.
Mr. Neuhalfen rode out of California on his motorcycle in 2002. He rode across the United States from San Francisco to Boston, then south to New Orleans.
In 2003, Mr. Neuhalfen lived in rural Louisiana, studying the Cajun language and cuisine.
Mr. Neuhalfen left the States in 2004 to return to Mongolia. He traveled overland through Mexico and Central America to Panama. He then went to Sydney, and crossed the Outback of Australia on the Indian-Pacific Railroad to Perth. By rail from Ho Chi Minh City, he traveled north through Vietnam and China, arriving in Mongolia in 2005.
In Mongolia, Mr. Neuhalfen has formed a trading company, Radigan LLC, and is in partnership with the Anak Ranch of Mongolia.
The Steppe, a philosophical novel by Radigan Neuhalfen about a hero who battles and eats mythical monsters on the Mongolian steppe, was published in Mongolia by Chinggis Khaan University Press in 2007.
Links:
Adventuria - Travels of Radigan Neuhalfen
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