International Travel Machine

Thanks to Giorgio, one of my former students, you are about to get more updates to this blog (I hope). I stopped posting to it because I cou...

Trip to Karakol Unqualified success. Well, mostly. Aipery, Phil’s child bride, had her 19th birthday yesterday. Andrea and I arrived back at...

Testing...

January 18, 2012 The cast. You don’t move to Bishkek in where-the-fuck-ever-stan to be an English teacher and not encounter in your co-...

Staying alive Recipe for one-skillet: Soak and boil beans. Flavor as desired. Keep in fridge, ready to go. When hungry, take out one servi...

Sheep grazing in a Bishkek park. Park in the south of Bishkek. Park in the south of Bishkek. Admit it, you're jealous. You know you wish...

January 9, 2012 First day of classes. I teach from 2:30 to 8:30, but I’m observing two classes this morning, one at 8:30 and the other at ...

January 8, 2012 It’s all about managing expectation, about releasing the old routine and the old patterns and developing new ones. So I ca...

Ride at your own risk, I think. No one has the Soviets beat for creating beautiful, durable structures... Yup. It's Lenin.