<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Rick Silverman]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rick Silverman]]></description><link>https://www.ricksilverman12.com/home</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:02:02 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.ricksilverman12.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The Overland--Iran 1978]]></title><description><![CDATA[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...]]></description><link>https://www.ricksilverman12.com/post/the-overland-iran-1978</link><guid isPermaLink="false">61a683a12a62d200164a1ead</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2021 20:18:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f3f446_217e468faaf54413a57c020071d3576f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rick Silverman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trouble in Iran--The Overland 1978]]></title><description><![CDATA[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...]]></description><link>https://www.ricksilverman12.com/post/trouble-in-iran-the-overland-1978</link><guid isPermaLink="false">617172e36dc6c5001681fc04</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2021 14:10:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f3f446_1a67cc8d92cf4f9bbff5258ec8ff7533~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rick Silverman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overland--Death in Afghanistan, 1978]]></title><description><![CDATA[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...]]></description><link>https://www.ricksilverman12.com/post/overland-death-in-afghanistan</link><guid isPermaLink="false">613bb3b776795c0016aaa289</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2021 20:19:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f3f446_6fc127419d6b4dd0ad8b315e27b72aa8~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rick Silverman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overland from Kathmandu --                Amritsar and Kashmir 1978]]></title><description><![CDATA[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...]]></description><link>https://www.ricksilverman12.com/post/overland-from-kathmandu-amritsar-and-kashmir-1978</link><guid isPermaLink="false">60f47cfc8919f10032acb05e</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2021 20:40:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f3f446_f2a70c897e1c4ff9b4460071724ca01f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rick Silverman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Bought a Van in Kathmandu!]]></title><description><![CDATA[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,...]]></description><link>https://www.ricksilverman12.com/post/we-bought-a-van-in-kathmandu</link><guid isPermaLink="false">60cd0b61924f14001516a20d</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2021 21:51:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f3f446_f466c87468434e6ba593d53d59b2ca68~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rick Silverman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pokhara--Annapurna Trek 1978]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kathmandu seemed like a blur. It was a noisy, busy market—a bustling city, bursting at the seams—so many things happening, different...]]></description><link>https://www.ricksilverman12.com/post/pokhara-annapurna-trek-1978</link><guid isPermaLink="false">60732c0a865b1700575bd43a</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2021 18:02:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f3f446_9ecd9ac24dd04851a0782123b6ba676a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rick Silverman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Step Back in Time--Kathmandu, Nepal 1978]]></title><description><![CDATA[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...]]></description><link>https://www.ricksilverman12.com/post/kathmandu-nepal-1978</link><guid isPermaLink="false">605e56e132520d0016033e80</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2021 21:58:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f3f446_15ee964ab5dc415baa3b03281b338d94~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rick Silverman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Club Vagabond—A Very Good Year]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Dent du Midi from Leysin, Switzerland  It was 1973—the Vietnam War was ending slowly and the hippie movement had transformed into...]]></description><link>https://www.ricksilverman12.com/post/club-vagabond-a-very-good-year</link><guid isPermaLink="false">604783144244c500159ce0a2</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2021 14:50:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f3f446_3f7a9653988b434ba4dd5f92e3586c27~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rick Silverman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death on the Trans-Sumatran Highway]]></title><description><![CDATA[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...]]></description><link>https://www.ricksilverman12.com/post/death-on-the-trans-sumatran-highway</link><guid isPermaLink="false">60076307efc52700179bfeb6</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2021 23:04:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f3f446_76a31679267b4a53b3d20c7f8b40174f~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rick Silverman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religious Musings]]></title><description><![CDATA[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...]]></description><link>https://www.ricksilverman12.com/post/religious-musings</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f0364419fc5f400178679a8</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2020 17:56:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f3f446_048f60e4a64e439188ad54e580999769~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rick Silverman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black Humor in Trying Times]]></title><description><![CDATA[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...]]></description><link>https://www.ricksilverman12.com/post/black-humor-in-trying-times</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5ec3fd4cdbb7e300171ca68f</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2020 15:41:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f3f446_557e85b5478d46da90f2f75ede5b5de5~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rick Silverman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reflection: Being Human in Trying Times]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you, like me, are currently hunkered down at home to avoid contact with other humans I suggest that between the Netflix movie...]]></description><link>https://www.ricksilverman12.com/post/reflection-being-human-in-trying-times</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e7f8e2750cd9300172cbb73</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2020 18:06:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f3f446_0806fed9a56642608a3f0ab799cd7ef9~mv2_d_2777_1963_s_2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rick Silverman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe]]></title><description><![CDATA[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...]]></description><link>https://www.ricksilverman12.com/post/finding-meaning-in-a-meaningless-universe</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e417f1053d0600017f6a7d4</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 16:07:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f3f446_9b10c19bbcea4a2fb8aae19f96ee2f95~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rick Silverman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion and Personal Responsibility]]></title><description><![CDATA[Freedom an Existential Point of View I’ve written before about ethics and morality and the idea that one may be ethical without being...]]></description><link>https://www.ricksilverman12.com/post/religion-and-personal-responsibility</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e14d0e3da76d600174958c2</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2020 18:59:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f3f446_6af5fa37290f40d89cec50fb99a1a34d~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rick Silverman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beer and Whisky--Microdistilleries]]></title><description><![CDATA[Michael Jackson, the world respected whisky writer (not the pop star), wrote that when he was young an older colleague, “warned that the...]]></description><link>https://www.ricksilverman12.com/post/beer-and-whisky</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5da5cdb1013b320017005ecf</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2019 13:48:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f3f446_3dbe11f367ba474485818bd07ce3d5ec~mv2_d_3024_4032_s_4_2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rick Silverman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can One Be Moral Without Religion?]]></title><description><![CDATA[A recent editorial in the Washington Post by Kate Cohen, “Pete Buttigieg, Please Don’t Equate Religion With Morality,” touches on an...]]></description><link>https://www.ricksilverman12.com/post/can-one-be-moral-without-religion</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5cdadd949b2e1d0055068f6b</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2019 15:58:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f3f446_014a934cb24b4c70ab02b07771ba86bb~mv2_d_4019_2720_s_4_2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rick Silverman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambiguity, Faith and the Supernatural--Whom Do You Trust]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ambiguity, Faith, Superstition, Belief in the Supernatural. I was thinking of something that happened to me many years ago. After I came...]]></description><link>https://www.ricksilverman12.com/post/ambiguity-faith-and-the-supernatural-whom-do-you-trust</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5caf7f66c03716001578c3b1</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2019 18:09:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f3f446_84b8217a7ffb42419656d94012effe01~mv2_d_3168_4872_s_4_2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rick Silverman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Can Learn to Play the Blues--Fingerstyle]]></title><description><![CDATA[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...]]></description><link>https://www.ricksilverman12.com/post/how-i-learned-to-play-the-blues-fingerstyle</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c914926e2a816001b46fd41</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2019 19:56:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f3f446_51030e79e4a24ac0bc3f2f8e418b1745~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rick Silverman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whiskey Shots--What's Your Pleasure?]]></title><description><![CDATA[“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...]]></description><link>https://www.ricksilverman12.com/post/whiskey-shots-what-s-your-pleasure</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c831450102d72001c77dc95</guid><pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2019 01:20:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f3f446_58b63e00ba014170898e8568473a2c3c~mv2_d_4032_3024_s_4_2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rick Silverman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes Old Is Better
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