Hello world! Yes, I am indeed alive and kicking, now in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. It’s been 3 weeks since my passport with all my visas was stolen in Istanbul and with so many decisions to make and emotions to digest it’s taken me a while to…
6 commentThe desert heat has given way to cold, windy Siberia. For the second night after crossing the Russian border, we are camping out in a field a few hundred meters off the main road with the cold wind nipping at the edges of our staked…
1 commentDrag around this VR panorama of the Aral Sea @ Muynaq. I will create a higher rez version when I get home, but for now I’m rationing bandwidth, posting this via satellite from our camp ground in the middle of nowhere Kazakhstan
2 commentA new batch of photos just posted to Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/photos/autarken And a quick video clip from the Aral Sea!
no commentI couldn’t really say how nice of a town Almaty is since I’ve seen little besides the parking lot of our hotel, but following the the trend that’s been set since Turkmenistan the people have been overwhelmingly nice. First order of business yesterday was to…
no commentThat “lamb shish” that I “just finished” in my last post? It was a vile poisoned thing! Either they rushed it out or the whole kitchen was filthy, because that was the 2nd worst food poisoning incident I’ve had yet. After finishing that post I…
2 commentHere we are back in Izmir–Kim, Yasmin and I wanted to take a few moments to update you on our last days together. We spent the last 4 days in Chios, Greece sitting up on another terrace eating delicious goat cheese, melon and local honey….
2 commentWaking up early and leaving our desert camp ground at Darvaza, we made for the Uzbek border, filling our fuel tanks both internal and external to full, including some extra 5 liter water bottles, as we’d heard about a gas shortage in Uzbekistan. We made…
1 commentWe are in the middle of the desert in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan, hunting for the ghost ships of the Aral Sea near Muynaq. For the first time some locals just gave us some bad directions and we took a wrong turn into the desert. So far…
2 commentThere is a glow a few kilometers to our East. It’s an unmistakable warm orange-red glow of fire, but this fire never goes out. It’s been burning for the past 40 years or so. We are in Darvaza, Turkmenistan, camped out in the middle of…
11 commentI’m sitting on a rusty old cargo ship on the east coast of the Caspian Sea, waiting for a spot to open up at port for us to dock, watching the sun set. After a few technical difficulties I’ve finally got the sat-modem working. We’re…
1 commentFinally, we got some photos up on Flickr. When I get more time I’ll add more tags & frame them on the site w/some comments, but we have to run to Turkmen Consulate. For now, enjoy! http://www.flickr.com/photos/autarken/tags/baatarhero/
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