Islamabad just got served How I Got Here 5 years ago I crashed a random wedding in Lahore where of all the “WTF small world moments” I’ve had in my life I would run into an acquaintance named Ali Raza, whom I had first met briefly when I spoke at CUNY...
— Above cover photo credit: Mikhael Chai — thanks for that unplanned shot of me standing on the top of Nauru! — I’ve already had my fair share of New Year’s Eve celebrations in far flung corners of the globe: 2010 in Cairo, Egypt 2011...
From Tatev we turned and drove up north towards the town Goris, famous for being the home to the Settlement of old Kores, a series of previous inhabited rock caves similar to the cave homes in Cappadocia. And thus began our final leg of our roadtrip into...
See those dotted lines around Tiraspol on the map above? That means something. Sandwiched in between Moldova and Ukraine lies a breakaway/renegade self-proclaimed separatist region officially known as Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic or Transnistria autonomous...
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” Since our first trip to India, you began to grow. And learn. The decals of your cover began to fade with every stamp that graced your pages. In the beginning there were periods...
This morning we woke up early for our 7am pickup for Train #004 from Irkutsk to Ulaanbaatar departing at 8:12am. And there our train stood waiting for us, emerging from the hazy mist of an early morning fog as if out of a dream — this is...
Make no bones about it, Russia and the USA have not always been the best of friends, which means getting into Russia as a USA citizen can be a bit of an ordeal. I just got mine, and it wasn’t very straightforward. FYI, the process to enter Russia is very...
