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, 2021
- 8 min
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, 2021
- 9 min
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, 2021
- 5 min
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, 2021
- 7 min
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, 2021
- 11 min
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, 2021
- 5 min
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, 2021
- 6 min
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, 2021
- 14 min
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, 2020
- 6 min
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, 2020
- 5 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 5 min
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, 2019
- 3 min
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, 2019
- 6 min
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, 2019
- 4 min
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, 2019
- 5 min
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, 2019
- 4 min
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, 2019
- 5 min
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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