Stepanakert And Never Look Back!

Stepanakert And Never Look Back!

by | Nov 16, 2018 | Armenia, Artsakh, Azerbaijan, Border Crossing, Getting that VISA, How Did You Do That?, November 2018: Armenia & Artsakh, Rules Are Meant To Be Broken, Unrecognized Territories, Walking Tours, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, What Dreams May Come

 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...
Knock-Knock-Nakh-chivan On Heaven’s Door: 2 Days In Nakhchivan

Knock-Knock-Nakh-chivan On Heaven’s Door: 2 Days In Nakhchivan

by | Aug 29, 2018 | August 2018: Azerbaijan & Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan, How Did You Do That?, Lessons Learned, Nakhchivan, Rules Are Meant To Be Broken, Travel Warnings, Uncategorized Stories, Unrecognized Territories, Walking Tours, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, What Dreams May Come

  It’s time to shift monsooning back into higher gears — today we’re visiting Nakhchivan! A landlocked exclave separated from Azerbaijan by Armenia (or as some say, physically located within Armenia), but an otherwise autonomous region under the control of the...
Let’s Do The Tiraspol Transnistrian Time Warp Again

Let’s Do The Tiraspol Transnistrian Time Warp Again

by | Nov 11, 2017 | Border Crossing, Getting that VISA, How Did You Do That?, Moldova, November 2017: Moldova & Transnistra, Rules Are Meant To Be Broken, Transnistria, Unrecognized Territories, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, Weekend Trips

 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...
Playing Chicken With South Ossetia & Stalin’s Gori Past

Playing Chicken With South Ossetia & Stalin’s Gori Past

by | Jan 11, 2016 | Crisis, Georgia, How Did You Do That?, Rules Are Meant To Be Broken, South Ossetia, Unrecognized Territories, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, Winter 2015: The Silk Road

  After a 2-3 hour walking tour of Tbilisi at dawn, I hopped in my 9am car to Gori and the South Ossetian border.     South Ossetia is infamous for being the Russian-leaning autonomous region that declared secession from Georgia and its allegiance to...