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July 08, 2004

Togetherness, two volkswagens and a two dollar tow home

More from Rick... Aslaama alaykum. (Islaamic greetings from the Uyghur capitol of Kashgar). This should be the last installment, before my flight back to shanghai, and then home. Yesterday, something strange happened. Strangely, it was not the usual snake-drink in...

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Yarkand (or, Car Can't)

I'm not sure if it was the thirtieth or the fourtieth huge pothole our car hit when our late model VW Passat started to hemmorage an enormous amount of oil. Rick and I, along with a fellow traveler from...

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July 06, 2004

A view of the Karakoram

I've been meaning to write about our trip along the Karakoram Highway towards the Chinese border with Pakistan and Afghanistan, but I haven't had a chance yet. It was a truly amazing place, with a landscape like no other I've...

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The Craziest Market Ever

We arrived at the famed Kashgar Sunday market early enough that some of the vendors were still setting up shop. Our taxi dropped us off in the middle of a street packed with minibuses, donkey carts, horse carriages, motorcycles...

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July 05, 2004

The Holy Man

I couldn't figure out at first why the holy man wouldn't grab my wrist the way he had grabbed rick's wrist when he told his fortune. Finally, he slowly reached toward a pile of blue plastic bags, gently peeled one...

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