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redder than red
…asked if I could store the Caboose there overnight: The owner gave me a suspicious look and demanded to see my passport and the inside of the Caboose. Then he…
riding the elephant
…Caboose. We didn’t go to the border right away though, because we first had to pick up some stuff from a garage: When we were done, the car looked like…
unreal Turkmenistan
…the 100-minute ride to the border. But I couldn’t. When we got there, the Caboose was ready: I said goodbye to everyone, and then I went in. I cannot show…
8-0-0-0
…would want to walk or pull Cabooses: I stayed there for a little while, then I went back to my road: The Caboose and I had mixed feelings about that…
my yoke is easy
…sidewalk was mostly unusable for the Caboose and me, because people would park their cars on it, like the driver of this vehicle: Or this one: Or this one: I…
the day that won
…Vahid’s family watched me load up the Caboose: Vahid took my camera and ran off to photograph his dad with his friends repairing the car: Then we posed for a…
lord of the flies
…brought me a drawing and told me they wanted me to have it: It is in the Caboose now. I left the little village, walking past this little dude: And…
Donald Trump’s origins
…the way: And then, immediately before the mud volcanoes, there was an uphill climb that defeated the Caboose and me: We got about halfway up, then it became impossible to…
bad man good man
…bunch of cats on a stairway: Really, it was a bunch: Then, when I got back to the apartment block, I opened the Caboose to take out some things, and…
where are you and where am I
…go to the bicycle shop where I had dropped off the Caboose to get repaired two weeks earlier. The way there led through some of the more humble parts of…
languages
“Chris, don’t leave today,” Murat, who spoke English pretty well, gave me a pitiful look as I was loading up the Caboose. He pointed up…
easy mode or hard mode?
…a cyclist only the uphills are bad. They can relax as long as they are going downhill. But for me, with the Caboose, both uphill and downhill were difficult in…
Private: 24″
I remember there was this day in 2016, a hot summer day on the border of China and Kazakhstan, when the Caboose got a new…
never ready
…outside in thirty minutes! There was a lot to do outside: we had to check on the tyres of the Caboose, possibly fix them and buy a new air pump,…
the 14th day
…hills with a hangover It was a cloudy day, and the winds were strong. Also, it was supposed to rain later. We pulled and pushed the Caboose up the hills,…
gaiter style
…two pomelos, three pomelos, four. Hundreds of pomelos, thousands of them. The Caboose also made a sound, and a surprisingly loud one, too. It reminded me of the engine of…
WTF bear tracks?
…hat, and my hood. I fastened all kinds of rain covers over the Caboose. Then I stepped onto the crunching snow. about snow It was both terrible and awesome at…
a new dress, baby
…look for a piece of white cloth that I can use to cover the Caboose. I used to have one that I bought in Uzbekistan, but I lost it in…
home advantage
…I was packing up the Caboose, we ran into each other again. “That guy speaks Chinese,” he told the colleague next to him. When I explained to them that I…
don’t forget the struggle
This post is about a 9km walk from Balotești to Godeanu. The first stretch is one of the toughest climbs the Caboose and I have…