An update …
After 5 days, James did eventually get out of the mud in Kazakhstan with the help of the firemen, the army and this surprisingly small-looking, but obviously bad-ass truck! Apparently it had an anchor to keep it stable while it pulled the truck out…
Welcome back James!
OK – I know I’ve been here for 2 weeks for very few blog posts, but you won’t believe me if I try to explain how busy I am! A rundown of my day: 5am (ok, so I haven’t quite made it out of bed at 5am yet, but I’m getting closer! Currently 5:30am): wake…
I am so thoroughly addicted to “Club Social” biscuits here in Nicaragua (a fairly plain cracker) and turns out they make an excellent substitute to bread when one needs a very early breakfast (ham, cheese and tomato “sandwich”) before heading out for the day’s activities. The early start was to catch the bus from Estelí…
I started my Day 2 in Esfahan (see here for Day 1) wandering around the parklands that border the River Zayendeh. Then, after my aborted attempt at visiting the Shah Mosque, I decided that I’d make my way out to the largest mosque in Iran, the Jameh Mosque of Esfahan (the main mosque in each town is called…
After dire predictions about how strict the Uzbek border guards would be and long it would take us to get across the border, in the end only took 4.5 hours to cross from Tajikistan to Uzbekistan with the truck, the guards only interested in what medications we were carrying. This meant we easily made it…
Last night I almost fulfilled one of my bucketlist items – I almost saw the midnight sun. I say almost, because at the latitudes where we are, the sun does actually set briefly, but I definitely stayed up to see the midnight twilight 🙂 Here’s the proof – a picture of Rosamel Island, the entrance…
Well, the big day finally arrived! After far too many farewells, I’m now on my 12 month journey which currently looks like this: February – March 2016: perfecting my spanish at La Mariposa Escuela de Español in La Concha in Nicaragua. April – June 2016: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala July 2016: Cuba August – November 2016…