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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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