A Long Hiatus So I last wrote over three months ago in China. Since then I have covered a long distance and am about to cover a good bit more. From Southern China my brother and I headed down to North Vietnam. We ventured into the highlands and saw the very colorful markets. We were very disappointed though, because coming from China where everyone is somewhat polite to you and then to being hassled by all these tribal women and girls that speak decent English and won’t leave you alone until you buy something from them is just plain annoying. At [View Full Entry]

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First of all sorry for not finishing my story about the Kyrgyz horse trip but I got really disillussioned by writing it, hopefully I will finish later when I get the time. For now more about the present time and what has been happening. Thanks for reading and writing me back, it's great to hear from everyone. When you travel you have bad days and you have brilliant ones, excuse my British. Sometimes you just want to pack it all up and go home, but the really good ones make you want to live that same day over and over like [View Full Entry]

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Kyrgyz Horse Trip Part 3 of 3 So first of all sorry to all of you waiting on the edge of your seat drooling to read the outcome of the adventure through Middle Earth. I have spent the last month in Mongolia seeing the sights and giving myself a much needed weeklong break doing nothing after three months of hard travel. I do apologize for the long delay. In the meantime I have posted many new photos of Kyrgyzstan, China, Outer Tibet and Mongolia. Also I have posted the first two parts of the story at on www.travelblog.org. The address is: [View Full Entry]

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After writing a few updates and them getting erased I have lost a good bit of enthusiasm but still I have a really long time to wait for my next train. I am heading up to Mongolia but I am still in China. The trains are so crowded and getting a ticket sometimes requires you to wait in a line of 50 people. It is ridiculous how many people there are here. I think they should just cram them in like in India but they try to have order which doesn't work too good because everyone pushes and cuts in line. [View Full Entry]

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So two years and change have passed since I moved to Kazakhstan. I learned some Russian, experienced village life and have gained much patience. I also read a good deal, studyied for and took the GMAT, applied to graduate business school, taught at a local high school, and learned what I really want from life. That last one was not just a realization but a culmination of years of indecision. It is too difficult to explain here and I will spare you the details but for the record I do want more than a life of travel and what many feel [View Full Entry]

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So I left Kazakhstan after two long years. I said good-bye to the people in my village and hit the road. I was accompanied by my friend Nagima to the border and I found a free ride to Kirovka. On the way we passed the dam on the Talas river with a huge head of Lenin with his huge chin pointing out of the water. The driver turned out to live across the street from my friend so he was able to drop me at the door. It was a small get-together with a bunch of people I didn't know but [View Full Entry]

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So after almost 2 years of volunteer work in Kazakhstan I am hitting the road. The road consists of no roads to begin with as a friend and I will ride horses across the mountians of Kyrgyzstan to the Chinese border at the Torugart Pass. Hopefully this venture will be successful since there is now turbulence in the region and it might just be too dangerous. In China I plan on going throughout the Western part checking out a Tajik city as well as some of the caves, possibly going to Tibet. Then up to Mongolia for two to three months [View Full Entry]

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