Monthly Archives: August 2010
Sabyrbek and the Monster
Sabyrbek has a cat. After nearly three months of acute feline deprivation in the mangy dog-philic streets of India, that’s all we really needed to know to stay in his guesthouse for three days. Fortunately, at the steep price (read: … Continue reading
Guidebooking vs. Bullshitting: The Ultimate Showdown
When most travelers seek advice on the sights, sounds and other fodder for a pleasant jaunt in a foreign city, they look to their Lonely Planet. Are they a bunch of mindless yuppy sheep with no real sense of adventure, … Continue reading
A Gander Inside Amritsar’s Golden Temple
Maybe it’s because we’d just traveled three days by bus from a week of landslides and bad liquor. Maybe it’s because we’re not quite such cynical dickheads as we think. Whatever it was, we loved Amritsar. The sights are beautiful … Continue reading
Cloudy With a Chance of Child Abduction
“Oh, an Asian girl.” That probably constitutes the entirety of our initial thoughts of Cloudy when we arrived at the Golden Temple dormitory. And though we would not be incorrect in this ethnic assertion, to leave the story there would … Continue reading
Losing the Royal Challenge or Bustop Booze Bust
The following was the first major obstacle on our photo-centric way through Spiti. So we made it nearly two thirds of the way up the 13,051-foot pass before the traffic stopped — for the next five hours. First it was … Continue reading
Out of India
Howdy folks! So we’re still alive. Incidentally, in Kyrgyzstan, whose streets have been mostly cleansed of bullets, blood and brain pulp from their Revolution 4 months back. Been a busy couple of weeks. We’ll sit down and hammer out some … Continue reading
Herro Asia! 