Category: Discoveries
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A Year and a World
After our seven week trip on the Trans-Siberian Railway, we were on yet another train, this one from Saint Petersburg to Tallinn, Estonia, when Linda asked me if I really thought the Trans-Siberian Railway trip was anything special. At least for her, it was just one more train trip out of the many we had…
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Exploring the Gobi
The desert is not, as most people imagine, just sand and more sand, or just dirt with scrub brush. It is rich and varied, and my trip to the Gobi was not just hours of driving (we traveled 2000 kilometers in 10 days) with an occasional sight to see, and perhaps explore. Instead it was…
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China, I Owe You an Apology
We ended up in China only because we had to leave from Beijing on our Trans-Siberian Railway trip if we wanted to see Mongolia, and it made sense to spend some the time in China during the two weeks between leaving Bhutan and the train departure. Neither Linda nor I were that excited about going to…
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There Was No Bridge Over the River Kwai
Kanchanaburi is a town in the west of Thailand, 123 kilometers west of Bangkok and the capital of Kanchanaburi Province. There really isn’t much there, and yet it is often found on most of the what-to-do-in-Thailand lists because the town claims that it is the site of a train bridge made famous in a few movies…
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Outside Prague
We got to Prague a few days before our friends Joan and Jay so we decided to explore outside of the city before they arrived. We had asked the manager of the Airbnb apartment we were sharing with them if she had any suggestions for day trips, and she told us about this strange church…