Monthly Archives: December 2016
Alexander’s river
When I woke up, I was greeted by heavy rain. So I went back to sleep. Two hours later, the rain had gone, only the clouds were still there: It was very windy. I crossed the river Syr Darya at this bridge: Wasn’t allowed to take any pictures of the river itself and had my […]
la Cabouse est morte, vive la Cabouse!
So there she was: The new Caboose: The Caboose 2.0: You are currently viewing a placeholder content from YouTube. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers. More Information Unblock content Accept required service and unblock content Nice, huh? We started walking right […]
respectwalk
Today Samandar and his dad picked me up, and they had the new Caboose with them: I was excited to take her for a walk, but no. We had to go back to the police and wait around some more. For the third time. I was reminded of my court case in Almaty a couple […]
Christmas Caboose
Had to go back to the police today. Samandar, the destroyer of Cabooses (who was actually a pretty nice guy) took his best friend along: The whole thing at the police ended up taking a very long time. Then we went to Zafar’s workshop to see how far the new Caboose had come along: You […]
santa hats
The police were busy at the police station doing their thing. Zafar was busy working his magic on the remains of the Caboose. It was Christmas Day. I decided to keep wearing my Santa hat and stay in with a bottle of beer: I watched some Russian reality TV, which was unbelievably stupid (or rather, […]
hold me, plastic tree
Christmas Eve. The one day when I really miss my home. I spent most of it at a police station near the accident site. The cops were alright. They had me write a report in English and came up with a translator. I tried to keep my report as simple as possible: On our way […]
death of the Caboose
Wearing my blue Santa hat, and with the Caboose nicely adorned, I said good-bye to the friendly people of the hotel: Looking back it seems a little bit like decorating a sheep that’s about to be slaughtered. But I didn’t know that yet. So we walked out of Tashkent, the place that felt like a […]
the red bell and the blue bell
I wasn’t quite ready to leave yet. Not without a Santa hat. So I went to a bazaar around the corner from my hotel, which was where I bumped into the next president of the United States of America: …but it turned out to be just a wealthy chicken. I left the president/chicken and proceeded to […]
Zafar The Great
Polished my shoes to achieve better water resistance: Then I went to a small local bazaar… …and came out with wads of cash. If you know what I mean. Then I hopped in a cab and went back to the sporting goods shop where they had repaired my spare wheel. In the process of repairing […]
Caboose 1.2 (I like big butts and I cannot lie)
The Caboose was still in need of some work. Born around eight years ago in Zhangye, China, she had gotten a slight tweak a few months later near Dunhuang and then a major overall shortly thereafter in the desert city of Shanshan. This year in July she had gotten a new paint job at the […]
photo of a blue chip
Tashkent was beautiful today: Light snow and sky that was blue: I decided to take the metro to an old part of town: I liked the ticket that I got very much, and I liked the metro itself as well. There are only two subway systems in this part of the world, the other one […]
cucumbers
Sometimes I forget which day of the week it is. Today was Sunday anyway. And it was still snowing/raining/being generally shitty outside. So I stayed in and wrote some blog posts: Had some cup noodles: And some cucumbers: The cucumbers reminded me of the days when I was in the Gobi desert with my brother […]
velomasters of the universe
With the blue sky gone and snow descending upon Tashkent, I decided it was a good time to go out: I wanted to take the Caboose to get a general checkup: At least that was the idea. So I marked a place on the map where an alleged velomaster was supposed to reside. Then I started […]
holidays and the mall
Did some laundry today: Then I started uploading my Let’s Walk videos: It felt like being catapulted back to the early 2000s, the internet was so slow. Not sure if that’s a general issue here or if it’s just this hotel, or just this time. Anyway, it was slow. The hotel people were busy preparing […]
millionaire meets Pushkin
I was still not over the whole money issue: You are currently viewing a placeholder content from YouTube. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers. More Information Unblock content Accept required service and unblock content Hilarious. And sad. At the same time. […]
Tashkent
Woke up and brushed my teeth next to the road: You can see the border to Uzbekistan right be hind me. Then I changed some Uzbek money and got this ridiculously large wad of cash: Inflation is the name of the game. Had some cookies and some ice-tea, watched some “Modern Family” on my phone […]
a perfect bench and a Caboose in pain
Everyone got up pretty early, when it was still dark outside. We had some tea and some bread, then we said good-bye: Yerik introduced me to his neighbor, a blind gentleman who really loved the idea of walking around with the Caboose: I was a bit worried though, because the ball bearings on one of […]
the worst kind of rain
Woke up, had some tea with Nurzhan, and then I got on my way again. Nurzhan’s dad had been telling me about an uphill slope I was going to have to tackle. And he was right, it sucked. But there was a reward at the end: The Caboose liked it very much: But I was […]
out of shape
It’s always the same: Whenever I am about to embark on a journey, I feel nervous. This time was no exception. I hadn’t walked in more than a month, a new country lay ahead, winter was coming. I hated it. But there is always an upside: it can feel pretty nice to just do things […]
FC
Stayed in again. Finished up a bunch of blog entries. Sorted some stuff. Made a short video of some of the footage I had taken in Astana: You are currently viewing a placeholder content from YouTube. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party […]