Two more days till we go home.
Fifteen months is a long time, and I am looking forward to going home. One adventure ends, but a new one begins.
Reintegrating into life in the United States.
With a whole new view of the world.
I am also depressed. Most of my life, I have dreamed about and planned for this trip around the world. And now I have done it.
I don't know what to dream of next.
It has been absolutely amazing beyond words, especially the section traveling by land from Pakistan into China, Central Asia, and back into western China.
Such a different world, and yet so much the same.
So many kindnesses from strangers.
Strangers who are so much like us in their basic needs and desires.
Strangers who reached out and shared a small snapshot of their lives with us.
What better dream than this?
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Over the peak spreading clouds,
At it's source the river's cold.
If you would see,
Climb the mountain top.
Hakuyo
At it's source the river's cold.
If you would see,
Climb the mountain top.
Hakuyo
About Me
- akroadweed
- I am an Alaskan who loves to travel-the new experiences, the sights, sounds, smells, and especially the people. It is amazing how people all over the world are willing to open up, sharing with you a small piece of their lives and showing you a window into their world. I also love my home in Alaska-the open wilderness, the mountains, the beauty, and, yes, even the long, cold winters! This blog is a place for me to record and share my experiences, photos, and my sometimes pointless musings.
Some of my more memorable experiences
Country Archives
- Africa (10)
- Alaska (7)
- Archives: Where are we now? (1)
- Argentina (2)
- Cambodia (2)
- Carretera Austral (2)
- Central Asia (10)
- Chile (3)
- China (13)
- Ecuador (1)
- Grand Canyon (2)
- India (7)
- Ireland (1)
- Kyrgyzstan (4)
- Laos (2)
- Mauritania (6)
- Morocco (6)
- New Zealand (7)
- Pakistan (1)
- Paraguay (1)
- Peru (5)
- Reflections (4)
- South America (11)
- Southeast Asia (5)
- Thailand (2)
- The Itinerary (1)
- Turkey (5)
- UK: London (1)
- USA (5)
- Uzbekistan (2)
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O, how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew nothing. One lived and ran about the earth and rode through forests, and certain things looked so challenging and promising and nostalgic: a star in the evening, a blue harebell, a reed-green pond, the eye of a person or a cow. And sometimes it seemed that something never seen yet long desired was about to happen, that a veil would drop from it all; but then it passed, nothing happened, the riddle remained unsolved, the secret spell unbroken, and in the end one grew old and looked cunning . . . or wise . . . and still one knew nothing perhaps, was still waiting and listening.
HERMANN HESSE
Narcissus and Goldmund
HERMANN HESSE
Narcissus and Goldmund
1 comment:
We will miss your adventures that you and Tim have shared on your Blogspot. Your pictures are outstanding and your narrations were quite interesting. It's obvious you have inherited some traits from your grandfather. Good luck on your new adventures
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