Central Asia – April 2018

Hello from Baku and Abu Dhabi, A three hour flight across the Caspian Sea brought us to Baku, the capitol of Azerbaijan.  We have wanted to visit Baku ever since we traveled to Georgia and Armenia a few years ago. I wasn’t really sure what to expect when I got here.  Baku is where the […]

Hello from The Nuratau Mountains, From Bukhara, we booked a two night excursion through the Nuratau Mountains, on the way to Samarkand, our final Uzbek destination. Unfortunately, on the day we left it was pouring rain, and it rained throughout the day until we got to our first stop, a Yurt camp in the desert,

Hello from Bukhara, along the “Silk Road”, A comfortable 4 hour high speed train ride from Tashkent, we arrived around noon in Bukhara, an ancient city oasis and major stop along the old “Silk Route” between China and Europe.  It’s a pleasant city full of 600+ year old mosques, madrasas, and ancient ruins. The largest

Hello from Tashkent, Arriving at the Seoul airport we noticed dozens of people in line to check in for our flight.  They were pushing overloaded carts of huge tapped up boxes to ship as luggage. In the past we would have waited an hour in line to get our boarding passes. Thank goodness for the

Hello from Seoul, Eleven hours, several movies and a billion podcasts after we took off from Seattle, we arrived in Seoul. The Delta airplane we flew in was an old Boeing 767, that had its interior refreshed a bit, but an old entertainment system. Half way into my first movie, the flight attendant came on