Tag: travel
member name: Sean Paul Kelley
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November 12, 2006 10:30 AM EST --
We left Yazd early in the morning for our date with the Dasht-i-Kavir. We made good time; stopping only once for a picnic in the middle of some salt flats 300 kilometers outside Yazd. Bread, feta cheese, . . .
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August 05, 2006 10:41 PM EDT --
Just a short notice: odds are now in my favor that I will go to Afghanistan in the October-November timeframe (Iran is pretty much a done deal before Afghanistan). I don't think I'll travel from . . .
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September 07, 2006 03:33 PM EDT --
The last hurdle has been hurdled. Our passsports now have valid visas for the Islamic Republic of Iran in them. All I need to do now is buy the airline tickets, pack and wait. I am actually going to see . . .
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November 10, 2006 09:51 AM EST --
The Islamic world is filled with magnificent cities. Samarkand, Bukhara, Damascus, Cairo, Istanbul and Mecca are all at the top of any top ten list, but Isfahan is in a class of its own. A city where the . . .
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September 23, 2008 11:00 AM EDT --
Tomorrow morning when I awake, walk out of my flat and head to the bus station I will begin the adventure of a lifetime. I will get on a bus and head off towards Malaysia and the famed spice trading city . . .
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October 03, 2008 06:59 AM EDT --
I learned an annoying lesson today: pay attention to where you park your moped. If there are red and white stripes on the curb, no matter how many other mopeds are parked int he same space, don't . . .
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August 25, 2006 07:23 PM EDT --
The trip my father and I have planned for Iran is now a virtually certainty, as we just received final visa approval from the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I haven't been this excited about . . .
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April 05, 2006 10:00 PM EDT --
from a June 2003 trip
As a general rule I do not change money at airports, unless there is an ATM machine and I can pull out enough local currency to get me where I need to go. I usually do it later, . . .
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April 11, 2006 08:16 PM EDT --
Spent a lot of my day thinking about Iran. Spent a lot of my day reading about Iran. Here's where I am: first off, the trip. Because of personal commitments I made earlier this year, if I don't . . .
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September 03, 2006 11:48 PM EDT --
First, in May 2005, there was a foiled grenade attack on President Bush when he visited the Republic of Georgia.
Tonight we learn there was a missile fired at McCain while he visited Georgia last week. . . .
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September 07, 2006 08:56 PM EDT --
I find myself with a dilemma, albeit a fortunate one. I am traveling to Iran to further research on a book and to accrue more personal experience with the people of the old Inner Asian trade routes. That . . .
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November 01, 2006 06:14 AM EST --
Before Father and I left for Iran I told myself I would not post about politics. I'm still very hesitant to do so, mostly because people will think I have 'gone native' if I do. But sometimes . . .
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November 11, 2006 11:20 AM EST --
We passed through the Qeysarieh gate (see previous post for location), a pair of Parthian horsemen turning backwards, bows drawn, ready for a final shot, stand at opposite ends of the tympanum. Was the . . .
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November 30, 2006 04:15 PM EST --
I'm leaving for Oaxaca Monday, December 4 to cover the recent unrest in the area. Just an FYI for those of you who followed me across Persia last month. We'll do it again, but this time it'll . . .
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December 06, 2006 09:20 PM EST --
First days are always about impressions. So are first posts. I’m glad I waited until I had time to process what I’ve so far seen, otherwise I’d have misled you and me.
Please excuse . . .
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December 06, 2006 09:23 PM EST --
Before I departed for Oaxaca I was told, point blank, by several people that I was endangering my life by coming here. I have no doubt that had I wandered into Oaxaca three weeks ago I would have been. . . .
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May 15, 2007 10:29 PM EDT --
Tehran's Mehrabad Airport is a cheerless backwater, especially at four in the morning, after enduring a 10-hour flight to Amsterdam, a nine-hour delay, followed by the six-hour flight to Tehran. . . .
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April 27, 2006 07:38 PM EDT --
I used to smoke. I used to climb mountains. I used to climb mountains and smoke.
Now I don't smoke, but I will climb mountains when I get to China next week.
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April 28, 2006 01:36 AM EDT --
In less than a week I will leave for China. I can't wait. I am so ready. It's been almost two years since I've been anywhere.
We checked the weather in Mongolia today: 31° and snowing. . . .
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May 17, 2006 03:23 AM EDT --
Video Blogging Can be Found Here.
My father and I are currently in Guangxi Province, the city of Yangshou, Garden of the Earth as the Chinese poets call it. Magnificent. It's my father's favorite . . .
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