Around DelhiNew Delhi, India New Delhi, India Greetings from New Delhi, where the money is scarce. the horns don’t stop honking, and the food is delicious. Cash crisis, day 2 We woke up this morning to the news that the…
No rupees for you
No rupees for youNew Delhi, India New Delhi, India Hi from New Delhi, India! Is the world still standing? It’s hard to tell from here. On the one hand, I’m grateful to be a bit removed from the aftermath of…
Warning: Political rant ahead
Warning: Political rant aheadSchiphol-Rijk, Netherlands Schiphol-Rijk, Netherlands Fair warning: This post is basically political, so if you’re turned off by the whole thing, feel free to click away now. I promise to resume travel tales in the next entry. WHAT.…
Hallo from the ‘Dam
Hallo from Amsterdam. Amsterdam is about as opposite of India as it’s possible to get. Here, the traffic is efficient, the bathrooms are ridiculously clean, and the prices are sticker-shockingly high. It’s also grey, rainy and colder than it was…
It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the evening before the big day. The moment we’ve all been waiting for. Months of debating, strategizing, planning and anticipating have all come down to this. Hillary vs Trump? No. My vacation. For the Americans (or anyone following this…
Fun with visas, again
Now that I’m within a month of departure, it’s visa time! This trip doesn’t require anywhere near the same level of hoop-jumping as my Silk Road trip did last summer, thank goodness. But I still need to get my hands…
It’s been a long time coming
Wanna go to India? This trip came about when I was chatting with my friend Christiane in Germany, who I met in Morocco as part of Cous Cous Crew 2010. The conversation, as they so often do, turned to travel.…
Silk Road in review
“Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here … and here. These are the nerve-ends of the world…” ―Colin Thubron, Shadow of the Silk…
Take the long way home
Well, I’m home. And not a moment too soon, either. It took over 24 hours of travel, but I made it home in one piece. My bag, alas, did not, but with all the adventures in airlining, I didn’t really…
Last day on the caravan
Wow. Tashkent again. It seems like yesterday that I was arriving in Beijing, halfway across the continent from here. In the past three weeks, together with my six other intrepid caravaners, I’ve covered over five thousand miles of ancient Silk Road.…