Dharma Bum I was thinking of you when I read that book by Jack Kerouac; especially regarding the bums and respectability. Pretty cool... just don't get sucked into Zen Buddhism crap.
Also don't forget that half the monkeys who sit behind cubicles don't have half the respectability that they like to pretend they do. What's respected are the nice clothes and projected illusion of money. Ye kurkum ye! Heck, when I go traveling personally unshaven and ragged parents hide their children from me... but then I'm browner than you and hence I must be a terrorist... because we all know that brown people have those tendencies. I'm sure it's got nothing to do with the fact that I don't own a toothbrush, eat my own dandruff and don't let my scabs heal.
Welcome back! Good to read something from you after so long. I totally disagree on your opinion about Spain but I still love your writing. No, that's actually incorrect. What I truly like is maybe not your writing but rather your way of travelling.
Marco
Eritrean visa did you have anything set up to get an Eritrean visa before you applied in Djibouti? I was there in April 2006 and was unable to get one from Djibouti unless i was a resident in Djibouti. The express option was also closed.
hi hi, I've read most of your blog and it's interesting. i went to djibouti alone for 2 weeks this yr backpacking. it is, as you say, incredibly beautiful and almost uninhabitable at 50 degrees! they're the friendliest people i've ever met though - i stayed with locals every night as they seemed so concerned about me being a lone female traveller! Best, Lucy
Ne diyorsun abe? Ne diyorsun Turk Effendi? Habestanlar is (ish - work) sevmiyor? Ne demek ya? Musliman habestan daha polite diyorsun? Ne demek. Cok yazk....
berbera in 1960 I was in berbera and from the pictures not much has changed it is a dangerous place more so being a white south african with an israeli stamp in my passport but travel along the east african coast was a great adventure and I recomend it to anyone with the cajones to try it
Great Blog I enjoyed your blog very much. My experience in Berbera and Hergeysa was in late 1985 as a member of a small task force of infantry soldiers. Why we were there and what we accomplished remains a mystery to me. Perhaps our unwelcome presence is why you received those hostile stares. What I saw was a stoic people, surviving despite years of colonialism, cold war theatrics, war and civil war. I think your writing is open and honest, keep it up.
Great blog First of all thank you for taking the time and visit Somaliland. Somalia is dangerous place, that's why the North decided to breakaway. Your blog was interesting and 100% true. I'm an African living in the U.S. People look at you different if one is a foreigner, that is everywhere in this World. Your journey on the Horn of Africa was brave. Hopefully the so-called warlords put the guns down and realize that their fuckin killing themselves. I salute you for this great writing...ONE LOVE
---- Haha, still chewing qat.... I WARNED you in my last comment/mail/whatever
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Anyway have a nice time chewing, who knows maybe ill join you some day. oh youre gone? well then i may follow your footsteps... well for the moment i'm more the type to smoke qat in amsterdam, different experience... but oh mush more expensive... god
World to Bedreddin: Hello Bedreddin! So where are you, what's new? I see you logged in on 29 August and as I've just signed up for Arabic classes at the Centre culturel arabe syrien in Paris in preparation for my next year's trip to Syria I am curious to know where you are with your language studies...and chukran leek for your fabulous postings.
LEBANON IS ARAB i wanna comment on Jazzar and Michael Farrah...ya sharameet...you are traitors....all Lebanese Forces and Kataeb Party members are traitors...they are shitty people,you collaborated with Israel against not only the Palestinians but the Lebanese also.Also trust me if the Palestinians had weapons during the massacre of Sabra and Shateela,nobody will dare to enter the camp,because lets admit it,Palestinians in Lebanon wer superb fighters,they would have fucked Kataeb and Lebanese Forces (they would have the big SHARMOOT Elie Hubiqa)...any way Elie Hubiqa,Basheer Jmael are all in hell,they are rotting there,those wer the biggest traitors.FUCK THEM.Also lebanon is arab 100%,so you people what language are you speaking?you BASTARDS....Also Palestinians didnt start the civil war in Lebanon k...its you people who started it,ISRAEL promised the Christians in Lebanon a state and they told them Palestinians are evil,then the christians in lebanon believed that the a christian lebanese is the pure lebanese,by the way FUCKU,,the main reason for the civil war is ISRAEL,and israel should be destroyed becoz its not a country.Its called Palestine....iam lebanese from Saida and iam proud of this land,also i would happy if the Kataeb and lebanese forces to be FUCKED.Lebanese Forces and Kataeb are the biggest SHARAMEET.
My trip began (July 19, 2004) as a 14-month leave of absence from my job, with the intention of "seeing the world", and a bunch of unrealistic ideas of what can be accomplished in a year. Turns out a year isn't as long as it seems, so I've recently quit my job (yeay!) to become a full-time traveler. Until, that is, I run out of money or decide I'm ready to rejoin the ratrace.
In the meantime, I'm trying to blog at least once a month from the countries I'm visiting. I'm not interested in Western Europe, so don't expect pictures of Venice here. My blogs are basically my impressions of pla... full info
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I was thinking of you when I read that book by Jack Kerouac; especially regarding the bums and respectability. Pretty cool... just don't get sucked into Zen Buddhism crap. Also don't forget that half the monkeys who sit behind cubicles don't have half the respectability that they like to pretend they do. What's respected are the nice clothes and projected illusion of money. Ye kurkum ye! Heck, when I go traveling personally unshaven and ragged parents hide their children from me... but then I'm browner than you and hence I must be a terrorist... because we all know that brown people have those tendencies. I'm sure it's got nothing to do with the fact that I don't own a toothbrush, eat my own dandruff and don't let my scabs heal.