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Day 3: Korday to Shymkent (490km) – tested by water
We eased our way into the first day of proper riding: Paul tweaked the luggage arrangements (considerably reducing the weight in the sidecar), I went […]
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Day 2: Bishkek to Korday – the hardest 25km?
Never has Lao Tzu’s oft-quoted “a journey of 5000 miles starts with the first step” seemed more apt, especially if you combine it with the […]
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Day 1: Bishkek – getting ready
I’m sure you have heard of the Harvard Study on Happiness. Running since 1938, its key message is that the quality of our relationships is […]
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Day 0: Vienna to Istanbul
And we’re off! What a blessing to be married to a seasoned fellow traveler who not only let’s me go on these trips, but helps […]
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Coming soon: 2 BMWs from Central Asia to Central Europe
7500km: Bishkek – Aktau – Baku – Tbilisi – Istanbul – Igoumenitsa – Brindisi – Kindberg
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Book Announcement: “Sovereignty: Overcoming Authoritarianism”
Have you ever asked yourself what you’d like your legacy to be? Sovereignty: Overcoming Authoritarianism explores the question of which aspects of our parents’ lives […]
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Who can help China and the world dodge this bullet?
There’s good news, too, perhaps: Sadly, most of the news is bad, much of it dismally so:
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UN Reform: Do or Die
In the latest session of the Intergovernmental Negotiations on Security Council reform (IGN), March 2023, four of the P5 didn’t bother to make a statement […]
