Silk Road & The Stans Eclipse Blog

For 42 days (July 24 - Sep 3), our only contact with world news, other than the few days where we had access to CNN, BBC, or EuroNews, was b...

We will publish more posts about our trip and upload our photos to the blogs. So keep on checking in and sharing your comments.

We got to the Almaty Airport a little before 10 pm, and were dropped off at the departure level of the terminal. Instead of walking right in...

We were packed and at breakfast before 8 am. No others we up to join us for a breakfast of yogurt, tea, crepes, sour cream, and apple preser...

We were in no rush this morning, so we spent some time watching a 2004 movie "The Terminal." This movie, starring Tom Hanks and Ca...

We awoke at 6:30, but we knew that there was plenty of time before breakfast. Last night, Kuku had informed us that breakfast would be serve...

Possibly the night before, possibly overnight in the cold, our camera died. It now takes exactly one picture, which appears to be a blue car...