Tag Archives: train ride
sizes of things
When I woke up, the train was still rumbling along: The kids had been quiet for most of the night, so that was good. The hostel I usually stayed at in Tashkent didn’t have any rooms, so I did what I had been wanting to do since I came to Tashkent for the first time […]
funny looks
Had a burger today: A bearded dude in a chic restaurant having a fancy burger. Hipster status achieved? Then I went to the train station: I was going to board the night train to Tashkent (the one that I had taken in the other direction two months earlier), but when I got there, a group […]
meeting with me
Went to Tashkent railway station today: In Uzbekistan, you are told to arrive forty minutes before your train departs. I usually try to be there at least an hour early. So I hung out in the waiting hall until the train arrived: I felt excited – how would our train pass the border? Would we […]
mail fail
We were about to go back to Tashkent today. But first we had to think of a way to get rid of the suzani we had bought: They were too heavy to lug around, especially if I was going to do any serious walking in the months to come. So we went to the main […]
one thousand and one big fat penises
There was a palace called Nurullaboy Saroyi just outside of Khiva’s gates: It was apparently well worth a visit, but alas! it was closed for renovations, as we were told by this friendly lady: We had already booked train tickets to Samarkand, so we just got some ice cream and sat down in front of […]
back to the yurt
Early in the morning, we hopped in a cab: The driver was apparently an MJ enthusiast: He dropped us off at the train station, then he vanished in a bubble of disco music: After a bunch of meticulous security checks (x-ray and all), we had to walk through a storage area: Somewhere behind it, there […]
hiding it
At around 10 in the morning, I said goodbye to Uncle Shen and got on the train to Kuytun. We gently rolled on, and the Gobi desert passed by the window: It felt weird to be there: A few hours later, I had arrived at my destination: Kuytun. The place where I had many friends, […]
family
I decided to stay with my great-uncle for a while. Took a train there: (If you look closely, you can see the reflection of my new white shoes in the window.) When I arrived, I was greeted with open arms. I slept a lot and ate little. One day, my great-uncle gave me an old […]
straw hats and watermelons
We eventually took the train back to Yumen, the place where I had left off several days ago (a natural fool). A car took us to the hotel: But we weren’t allowed to rest for too long, because we needed things. We needed hats to fight off the sun: And hats to fight off the […]
walkin sux, srsly, les jus tek da train
I stored my Caboose in a shop within the hotel: Then I went and got a train ticket back to Jiayuguan (Jiayuguan): I said good-bye to my dear Teacher Xie (Teacher Xie) and waited for the train: I got on the train: The train was was full of different faces going to different places: We […]