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Kyrgyzstan was an amazing place and quite a refreshing change from Kazakhstan. We immediately encountered change from the minute we crossed the border in the middle of a blizzard to the friendly locals who helped us out in Osh. Kyrgyzstan offered up dramatic mountain scenery and friendly faces. Kyrgyzstan was also where we met up with the expedition members of Trabant Trek. We had been exchanging information about overland travel with the Trabank guys for several months and Kyrgyzstan happen to be where our paths ultimately crossed… the Trabant guys were headed east on their way to Cambodian in old, Russian plastic cars and we were headed west towards Europe.
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Just a quick update to let everyone know what is going on in TWBR land. I am currently on the Hurtigruten ferry on my way to Bergen, Norway. Steve and Mark are also on the Hurtigruten ferry on their way to Bergen, but are a day behind... long story. I will be in Bergen for a day doing a newspaper interview and then will meet back up with Steve and Mark on the 10th, just in time to catch the ferry from Bergen to Newcastle, U.K. Being on the Hurtigruten is pretty cool and gives you an opportunity to see some great sights... when it is actually light out. We have also had a chance to catch up on photo galleries and video editing, so when we are not running into town to poach wireless for the 45 minutes that the ferry is in port, you can look forward to a ton of new content. That's all for now... I think I hear the horn sounding.Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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After making our way through Inner Mongolia and leaving China, the sight of the sky and fresh air in our lungs was like exiting some sort of biosphere project testing how much pollution the human body can handle in one sitting. After three weeks in China, our lungs were beaten down and each breath was painful. The view from the street in Beijing only leant a line of sight no farther than 3 blocks before the buildings on the street would fade away into gray smoke.
It has been 3 months since the expedition was in China. Steve Bouey still has a bad cough or some sort of lung infection that most certainly originated in China. Everywhere you turn in China people carry on with little unhealthy, persistent coughs. Our guide Jason told us that he had a cold when we first met him, but the cold lasted with the same little cough for the entire 3 weeks we were there.
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This was our first taste of really being in the middle of nowhere. Navigating with a compass and binoculars, we drove 650kms through the Gobi without any real roads. It is an eerie experience, but this was just the beginning and easy compared to Western Mongolia.
Enjoy.
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We are nearing our end in Asia. From Indonesia to Russia we went spanned the continent South to North. From China to Turkey we will have made the passage from East to West. In covering this vast continent, we have encountered bandits, sand storms, snow storms, bears, foxes, cobras, camels, and countless geographical challenges. We have passed through the lands of the Soviets, Chinggis Chan, the Ming Dynasties, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, the Sultans and more. We have seen some of the richest people and the poorest people. Our trucks have been our transportation, our home, our bed, our kitchen, our theater, our security. Temperatures have ranged from negative twenty to well over 100.
But over the last 7 months it has taken us to navigate this continent, none of the previous experiences would have prepared us for the last week we have spent leaving Central Asia...
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Here's a link to Something Wonderful!
No matter HOW the MSM treats it.
-Call BS-
But doing that REQUIRES an ability to MAKE A DISTINCTION (between friend and foe) and also REQUIRES that the afflicted populace VALUE their own earthly lives and the lives of their children enough to take needed steps to PROTECT THEMSELVES from vicious killers in their midst!Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Hello everyone. In-between trying to figure out visas for the rest of the Central Asia countries we are attempting to cross, still taking account for what exactly got stolen from us in Almaty and meeting some new friends, I thought I would give everyone a quick update. We are currently in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and we like it here a lot. It is a nice change from Kazakhstan and after some of our experiences there, it was great to get out.
TWBR and Sergi in Karakol, KG
The border crossing into Kyrgyzstan was one of the most uneventful crossings we have had to date, but the fresh foot of snow on the ground made for an action packed couple of hours as we helped to pull cars out of ditches and snow banks upon arrival into Stan number two. We spent a few nights in Karakol, a town on the SE corner of the second largest freshwater lake in the world and enjoyed the company of Sergi...Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Newscasts at 1800 and 2100 Thai time today carried news of the hospitalization of Thailand's revered Bumipon Adulyadet; for musculo-skeletal weakness and tests to determine the causes. His majesty is 79 years old, and has dedicated his life to service of the Thai people.
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He averted a catastrophe that could have shaken the foundation of the Earth
for many centuries to come — and the future of humanity forever . . .
In 1983 in Russia, there was a man who would have been considered an enemy by the people of America. But as it turned out, he would become for them and for the world an unknown hero — perhaps the greatest hero of all time. Because of military secrecy, and political and international differences, most of the world has not heard of this man. He is Stanislav Petrov.
The extraordinary incident leading to his heroism occurred near Moscow, in the former Soviet Union, just past midnight, Sept. 26, 1983. Because of time-zone differences, it was still Sept. 25 in America, a Sunday afternoon.
During the Cold War at this time, the United States and the Soviet Union were bitter adversaries. These two world powers did not trust each othe...Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Telling the American people about the gains, the slow-gains and the few continuing problems in Iraq, President Bush has noted that the Sunni-Shia antagonism can be contained by American troops, but what Bush did not address was the healing of that antagonism by introducing the Baha'i principles to the people of Iraq.
The democratization of the Faith of God, the personal accessibility and personal responsibility brought by The Glory of God; the equality of men and women; the oneness of humankind and the primacy of courteous, rational behaviour... these principles can guide the Iraqi people to a unity and harmony previously unknown in that region.
General Petraeus has documented and demonstrated the Iranian government's poisonous, terrorist reality in Iraq, so President Bush has addressed and emphasized them, and the need to meet those Iranian challenges to American safety.Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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"re: #279 ChenZhen
I suggest you review the conquest of Constantinople. One of the reasons for the tepid defense was the certainty that the siege was a repetition of something that had been done many times. After all, the parties were on speaking terms.
They had little understanding of what would happen after a Muslim takeover. All teens and men were killed. Young boys were castrated, often in front of their mothers, and then shackled. After being raped so they could not go to paradise, all older females were killed. Nuns, though, had special treatment. They were publicly gang-raped and made to "convert to Islam" before being killed. These nuns thought that they would be respected for the charities that they bestowed upon Muslims. Wrong.
The remaining females were marched up a stage for the next 3 days naked. They w...Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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(from "Trainer")
Osama bin Laydin d'Grave is Dead...
C: Testing! Testing! Testing! Testing! This is your nine o'clock prayer call!
C: Now that's what I call a dead terrorist.
O: No, no.....No, 'e's stunned!
C: STUNNED?!?
O: Yeah! You stunned him, just as he was wakin' up! Yellow Bellied Arabs stun easily, major.
C: Um...now look...now look, mate, I've definitely 'ad enough of this. That terrorist is definitely deceased, and when I received it not 5 years ago, you assured me that its total lack of movement was due to it bein' tired and shagged out following a prolonged jihad.
O: Well, he's...he's, ah...probably pining for the sand dunes.
C: PININ' for the SAND DUNES?!?!?!? What kind of talk is that?, look, why did he fall flat on his back the moment I got 'im to the cave?
O: The Yellow Bellied Arab prefers kippin' on it's back! Remarkable terrorist, id'nit, squ...Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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After a period of near-self-caricaturing by our government representatives, with their 'bad microphone' and 'timed interruptions' and 'pre-presentation speeches of denial & rejection', America's enemies in the governing heart of our nation finally had to pause in their self-aggrandizing circus and let General Petraeus speak to the matter.
When he did, he spelled out in simple terms even America's enemies could understand, that despite obstacles, freedom-loving nations allied against today's terrorist forces are making substantial headway in Iraq.
This did not sit well with the America-hating, self-loathing souls in America's governing bodies, but unable and unwilling to use logic and reason to refute General Petraeus (and through him, America's fighting forces and their Commander-in-Chief), the leprous legions left the special session to continue their plotting and subversion e...Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Have explorers located the sunken ruins of Mu or Atlantis off the coast of Japan? Even if the ruins aren't from one of these mythological sunken cities, the underwater structures off the coast of Yonaguni could very well be some of the oldest man-made structures at over 10,000 years old. This story has been kicking around for several years, but the video report from the BBC (below) reminded me of it. I am a big fan of so-called "cryptoarchaeology" so I figured I would toss this up incase anybody else is also interested, enjoy.
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What? What's a T&F?
I understand that this COULD be misused on occasion, but in this case, Tarring & Feathering a known drug-dealer (death dealer/undocumented pharmacist) seems like a FINE USE of the concept.
He's hurt, and VASTLY inconvenienced (and warned!) but not maimed or killed.
Go on, click the link and see why some good Irish folks stood up and said, "Drug dealer? I Call BS!"Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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