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by Calvin Sun | Jan 3, 2016 | How Did You Do That?, How's the weather?, Rules Are Meant To Be Broken, Uzbekistan, Walking Tours, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, What Dreams May Come, Winter 2015: The Silk Road
We travel not for trafficking alone: By hotter winds our fiery hearts are fanned: For lust of knowing what should not be known We make the Golden Journey to Samarkand. – James Elroy Flecker, 1913 The mysticism surrounding The Silk...