Lenin just got served Alexander The Great's northernmost Central Asian outpost just got served After 2 days in Samarkand, the group arrived in Tashkent in the afternoon and we did a leisurely walk through Independence Park, observing some national monuments and a...
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 Road has been...
Bukhara just got served The next morning, the group boarded our 9 hour bus ride from 8am-5pm (with an hour lunch break in between at a rest stop) from Khiva to Bukhara. The drive isn’t as pretty as I would expect, as it’s endless barren fields of the Kyzylkum...
The father of modern algebra/algorithm, Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, just got served The next morning the group got up at a horrific 4am in the morning for a 5am bus ride to the airport. We embarked on a 7am flight to Urgench, capital of the Khorazem region....
With the arrival of my college friend Remi this morning, our group was finally complete and we were ready to begin our first official day in the capital of Uzbekistan, Tashkent. A few of us started off by learning about the black market exchange with the Uzbek...
This story has a happy ending. Sometimes, all the planning in the world can’t stop travel from being…travel. We’ve acquired visas to places like Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela. We’ve defied countless odds in moving hundreds of our monsooners to remote...
