Greetings from Sukhumi, Abkhazia. Abkhazia is a breakaway republic with no American diplomatic presence as I explained in my previous, award-losing blog post. Having to be extra paranoid about not losing my passport reminded me of visiting Vietnam in 1992, … Continue reading
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The amazing thing about traveling is how much of a full life has been compressed into my one little month away. The engine fire feels like ages ago. It does feel like living in the grandest sense. I left the … Continue reading
In Budapest I met up with a Brazilian couple I know who are traveling around eastern Europe. They wanted to know why Hungarians kept asking them why they wanted to come to Hungary. I had a similar experience when I … Continue reading
Are people from Tangier called Tangerines? Sometimes I am asked what my least favorite countries in the world are and Morocco always makes my Bottom Three, but I realize I have been unfair to it. Lots of bad things have … Continue reading
I want to be that one traveler who likes Manila. I can have a great time in many cities travelers despise: Jakarta, Medan, Kolkata, Frankfurt, Lima, etc., but Manila is a test. I had forgotten how overwhelming the poverty is. … Continue reading
I’ll write about the beautiful and rough journey from Osh, Kyrgyzstan to here in Kashgar, China after I figure out what to do about my tooth. Why don’t you stay with me? You can follow along with RSS, subscribe to … Continue reading
So my friend had a bump on her back. When we were hitchhiking in Mexico we were sometimes thrown around in the backs of trucks as if in a blender as our drivers raced through the hills of Chiapas, and … Continue reading
This picture above was taken in my latter days from Nepal, a typical morning scene after a night of hacking up phlegm. Usually I put a newspaper down and leaned over the bed and let flew. (That was a colorful … Continue reading
I wrote before about the excessive safety precautions in Japan. This scene is on the smallest of side streets. I waited for a car or motorbike to go by to get a good picture of the “traffic” guard in action, … Continue reading
