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Exiting North Korea. Pyongyang, North Korea. 28 June 2017. * (For the previous part, click here: Travelling Pyongyang North Korea – Part 8) …I awoke this morning to realize that my Chinese roommate did not snore last night! How fortunate! I was in the shower in my room at the Yanggakdo International Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea, when the phone ran as a wake-up call from Kim, my guide. “Meester Beavers,” as he has taken to calling me lately, “It...
April 7 I was up before my friends and I wanted to write my blog in the morning, but by the time I got out of the shower, Tosh and James were away and outside of the tent. Tosh was smoking. He told me, “I try to quit every morning!” This morning seems to have been another failure. Tosh and James told me they had second thoughts about travelling all over Namibia with me. Money is a bigger factor than...
March 15 Bulawayo: National Railway Museum. It is hard to get moving when there are people to entertain! I left the hotel in reasonable time this morning, on my way to visit three museums in Bulawayo. My intentions were good. Then, I ended up walking past a place that was selling Johannesburg bus tickets… I guess I am headed that direction so I went inside to inquire. Two women were sitting at a desk. I told them silly stories and...
Backpack India 42 Hours of Transportation Hell… Arambol, Goa, India. April 9 Before Vova left yesterday, he found my snake-charmer friend. Vova wanted pictures of the snake-charmers and their cobras, but he did not have any money. So, he gave the snake-charmers the shirt he was wearing. Russians always seem to make due somehow. They backpack India on nothing and have a blast. When I came back to my guesthouse after lunch, my next door neighbor had a king-cobra locked...
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