Five Days At The Russian Cosmodrome Baikonur For A Manned Space Launch Day Three. I awoke to darkness, and today was going to be an exciting and busy day. I gobbled down a quick breakfast of eggs and tea at the hotel, and the group was on the bus before 6:30 am. We entered the Cosmodrome [...]
A Guide: Seven Days In Oman. Oman is the Quiet Man of the Middle East. Think about, you don’t hear much about it compared to its neighbors. War in Yemen and Syria. The ongoing violence in Iraq. Turmoil in Lebanon and Jordan with a tidal wave of refugees. Strife in Israel with their ongoing conflict with [...]
Five Days At The Russian Cosmodrome Baikonur For A Manned Space Launch Day Two. The morning was grey. I tapped on my phone and called a car using my Yandex app (Russia’s answer to Uber). It was only 1400 Tenge (under $5) for the thirty minute ride to the airport, quite reasonable. A creaky car pulled [...]
Vanuatu’s Heart: Full Of Love Or Hate? In my quest to travel to every country in the world, I visited the remote Pacific island nation of Vanuatu. While on the island I had a health incident which I detail in this port. This post of my experience began to make the rounds on social media and [...]
Five Days At The Russian Cosmodrome Baikonur For A Manned Space Launch Day One. My afternoon flight from Almaty touched down at the Kyzylorda domestic airport. I had landed in Kyzylorda, a city founded in the early 19th century, located in southern central Kazakhstan. Kyzylorda as you might guess, is not a hotbed of tourism. Why [...]
Around The World On TV. I have had an odd and uncanny ability to get on TV. But only after I have departed the US. In fact, the camera is not too fond of me in my own homeland. I will take you back many years ago … to the fourth grade. The local TV station [...]
Travel Musings From Kazakhstan. Why do we like to travel? Yes, of course, it is the momentous experiences that are burned in your psyche. Sunrise at the Taj Mahal. Watching a lion tear into a gazelle in the Serengeti near dusk. Gazing at the mysterious Moai on Easter Island as the waves of the Pacific Ocean [...]
Quarantine On The Friendship Highway, Part V. Happy days are here again The skies above are clear again Let us sing a song of cheer again Happy days are here again It was day five, and today we would gain our freedom. The government officials returned in the morning and called the group to the sparse [...]
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