Howdy,

A few days ago, Friday morning to be exact, Jake, Brian and I all met with Zhihong and Eric to discuss the re-making of our project and the reassessment of our initial interests. This meeting led to the conclusions that instead of focusing on the agricultural and medicinal aspects of oases along the Silk Road, we should focus on the famous travellers that made their way across the Silk Road and use their journals, stories of them, and their writings throughout their lives to piece together not only a story map of the history of the travelers, but also a time map of overlapping and progressively more recent travellers across the Silk Road.

I think this take on a project focus is great and I can’t wait to start really digging into the meat of the project and discover things that the group and class will love to know.