Slideshow
Countries
Africa Asia Australia Blog Brunei California Cambodia Cameroon Central America China Congo Cuba DC Egypt El Salvador Estonia Europe Fiji Finland France Gabon Guatemala Honduras India Israel Jordan Kazakhstan Latvia Lebanon Lithuania Malaysia Mali Mauritania Mexico Middle East Mongolia Morocco Nepal Nevada New York Nicaragua Niger Nigeria North America Oceania Oregon Pennsylvania Philippines Poland Pure Water Russia Senegal Singapore Slovakia South Africa Syria Thailand The Gambia Turkey United States Uzbekistan Vermont Vietnam work Zambia
-
Recent Posts
Comments
- Pierre-Philippe on The Faces of Zambia
- Carol Froman on Moving-In to our new home
- Kevin Wohlmut on Moving-In to our new home
- Annie on Moving-In to our new home
- Lila Richard on Slovakia’s mountains
1) What’s the substance/mineral or whatever on the rockface over the springs that “purifies” the water?; &, 2) What’s the significance of the bucket, besides just being a handy vessel to dip water with & drink from??
Your pictures are breath taking! What an adventure!
Great shots of/from Ben Amera!
Web site refused second paypal payment or anything more than $5. Why can’t one donate as much as s/he’d like? Happy holidays. See you in NYC.
I am just amazed at all the places you have gone! You should write a book about each place you go to. Be safe, and have a Merry Christmas!!
Where does that village get there water?
Bobby,thanks for all the great pictures and adventures you’ve shared with us in San Ramon. Happy Holidays to both of you. Its been too long between visits.
Tatooine outfit! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Good one!
Thanks, Bob! Love the pics, shared with my coworkers – makes for a very happy Friday!
Many thanks!
The best way to avoid being ripped off by tourist pricing for food and internet, e.g., in tourist-impacted cities like Samarkand is to go 1 km or more in a non-tourist direction. We did that when we were in Samarkand and found a bank that had not seen a tourist in a very long time. It had to open a special window just so we could convert $100 US into Uzbek sum. The manager was so interested in talking to a tourist about Uzbek banking problems that we got his personal attention for a whole 25 minutes.
fermented mares milk? YUK!! It looked to me that the lady in the second picture had a beer! Is there a difference between fermented and sour?
I drank ‘chol’ (fermented camel milk) in Turkmenistan. Now you will have to tell us if there is a difference between 1- and 2-hump milks.
R’n'R: Happy trails! Tell us if you spot any white camels.
Ha! Lots of two humped camels and milk of all kinds but we did not see a white camel. Shame, it would have definitely won the camel beauty pageant.
RK
Your nomadic life meets their nomadic life – what a story!
Yea, I know. We thought their life would make a great story and then realized we could probably use the same storyline for our lives as well.
wow. this life certainly has it charms, living on the move, eating what comes you way and living in the rustic style same sa forefathers before it, the pictures are very interesting and the scenes are too good
Great to fing you back in the blogosphere – looking forward to 1001 new tales.
If I am reading your blog with my RSS feed, I don't use any kind of email, right? So do I need to do anything to follow you in the Peace Corps?
Hi George,No, an RSS reader is perfect and you don’t need to subscribe to FeedBurner. You will continue getting everything as you have been. That latest post was mostly to move over anyone who was on my personal email list. Sorry if you got sent two notifications.The Africa posts will start April 7th,Thanks for reading.