The Overland--Iran 1978
After yanking our motor out of our van for the 5th time and having it fixed in Mashhad, Iran, we headed east driving about 600 kms deep...
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Rick Silverman
Oct 21, 20218 min read
Trouble in Iran--The Overland 1978
We had bought a van in Kathmandu and drove it through Nepal, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. [See previous posts] We’d been on the road...
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Rick Silverman
Sep 10, 20219 min read
Overland--Death in Afghanistan, 1978
It is amazing how quickly something can turn from the mundane to the lethal . . . From Amritsar in Northwest India, we took a mini-bus to...
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Rick Silverman
Jul 18, 20215 min read
Overland from Kathmandu -- Amritsar and Kashmir 1978
So Steve Bastrom (Basmo) and I bought an old VW combi back in Kathmandu from a Canadian couple, Randy and Linda. We planned to drive it...
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Rick Silverman
Jun 18, 20217 min read
We Bought a Van in Kathmandu!
Beginning the Overland, April/May 1978 - I’d had a few days of traveler’s stomach, so was watching what I ate. My trekking partner,...
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Rick Silverman
Apr 11, 202111 min read
Pokhara--Annapurna Trek 1978
Kathmandu seemed like a blur. It was a noisy, busy market—a bustling city, bursting at the seams—so many things happening, different...
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Rick Silverman
Mar 26, 20215 min read
A Step Back in Time--Kathmandu, Nepal 1978
I walked out of the Kathmandu airport and grabbed one of the old, dented taxis to take into the city. Arriving at the Asia Hotel, I...
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Rick Silverman
Mar 9, 20216 min read
Club Vagabond—A Very Good Year
It was 1973—the Vietnam War was ending slowly and the hippie movement had transformed into something else; we had no idea what. I had...
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Rick Silverman
Jan 19, 202114 min read
Death on the Trans-Sumatran Highway
I wrote this on Kuta Beach in Bali on March 5, 1978. It relates my adventure on the Trans-Sumatran Highway just a week or so earlier. I...
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Rick Silverman
Jul 6, 20206 min read
Religious Musings
I heard someone say the best proof for intelligent life out in space is that the aliens haven’t tried to contact us. I guess they know...
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Rick Silverman
May 19, 20205 min read
Black Humor in Trying Times
MORE SHUTDOWN MUSINGS . . . The best thing about the Corona virus (Wow! Did I really just say that?) is that it has given me a chance to...
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Rick Silverman
Mar 28, 20202 min read
Reflection: Being Human in Trying Times
If you, like me, are currently hunkered down at home to avoid contact with other humans I suggest that between the Netflix movie...
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Rick Silverman
Feb 10, 20204 min read
Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
Sitting at a bar in Singapore years ago, a friend of mine told me that his life was over since he’d had kids and they had grown. He told...
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Rick Silverman
Jan 7, 20205 min read
Religion and Personal Responsibility
Freedom an Existential Point of View I’ve written before about ethics and morality and the idea that one may be ethical without being...
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Rick Silverman
Oct 15, 20193 min read
Beer and Whisky--Microdistilleries
Michael Jackson, the world respected whisky writer (not the pop star), wrote that when he was young an older colleague, “warned that the...
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Rick Silverman
May 14, 20196 min read
Can One Be Moral Without Religion?
A recent editorial in the Washington Post by Kate Cohen, “Pete Buttigieg, Please Don’t Equate Religion With Morality,” touches on an...
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Rick Silverman
Apr 11, 20194 min read
Ambiguity, Faith and the Supernatural--Whom Do You Trust
Ambiguity, Faith, Superstition, Belief in the Supernatural. I was thinking of something that happened to me many years ago. After I came...
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Rick Silverman
Mar 19, 20195 min read
You Can Learn to Play the Blues--Fingerstyle
Now it is easier than ever to learn how to play the guitar and even how to fingerpick. There are instructional videos on YouTube and you...
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Rick Silverman
Mar 8, 20194 min read
Whiskey Shots--What's Your Pleasure?
“Let’s have a shot,” says my friend. We’re at the bar, drinking beer, and it is that time in the late afternoon to have a wee bit of a...
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Rick Silverman
Feb 19, 20195 min read
Sometimes Old Is Better
Map and Compass rather than Phone App GPS . . . “Where the fuck am I?” When I used to say this back in the old days I’d look around for...
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