Chapter 31: Russians
We haven't had enough Russian playmates, colleagues or neighbours to experience, to feel, that they love their children too.
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The Story So Far
Chapter 30: Strawberry Fields
The most difficult thing when traveling with a purpose is to keep the spirits up when leaving what called for more.
Chapter 29: Fishing
To be a traveling writer has a lot in common with fishing. And when men go fishing, they are up all night to get lucky.
Chapter 28: Searching to Be Found
My life tells me that we solo venturers that set out to find our self, in the end, most desire to be found by another.
Chapter 27: Warm Showers
It was the most moving sound I had heard from an instrument, and I felt its sadness the moment he touched the strings.
Chapter 26: Forces of Nature
I symphasise with the folks of old who attributed natural forces to supernatural gods with dark desires.
Chapter 25: Men's Search for Meaning
Sometimes, others change the way we look at ourselves, alter what we see in the mirror and transform how we think of that image.
Chapter 24: Hero of the Day
There were no news of Mehmet's deeds, only of mine. But his family saw him for the hero he was. I believe God saw it, too.
Chapter 23: Mixing It Up
Predictability is not what make up great stories. It is a sacrifice for a life rich in adventures, and one I make gladly.
Chapter 22: My Little Swedish Girl
It took a man from the other side of the world for me to finally feel familiar, and to realise how much I had missed that.
Chapter 21: Finding Footing
In this land, the destinations are the goals, not the journey. The good news are that the destinations are truly special.
Chapter 20: Soft Starter
When he picked up the guitar and sang his voice rang as true as his soul. There was no better sound to rock me to sleep.
Interlude: Checkpoint Reached
I am grateful the gift of direction, a gift that is perishable and fragile, that needs protection and one I do not take for granted.
Chapter 19: The End of a Beginning
The beauty and the brutality, the wonders and the weirdness leave deep impressions.
Chapter 18: Mountains of Magic
There is destruction and deep wounds visible in the earth, making it feel alive.
Chapter 17: Chomen
I supposed it said more about how men of the culture show pain: they don't.
Chapter 16: Pause in Paradise
I knew that there are some out there who reads, but hearing it meant a world of difference against loneliness, my biggest adversary.
Chapter 15: Advanced Homelessness
A deep kind of knowing that has no proof, and doesn't need any. But how do I measure it? Or more importantly, should I?
Chapter 14: Steve
It was a joy to see him so unfiltered, with an undying love to a place that has seen so much hate.
Chapter 13: Learning
There was curious caring with a touch of worry. How can a grown man know so little about his place in the world?
Chapter 12: Foreign Aid
Where there is goodwill, curiosity, initiative and drive, people find ways to make beauty together.
Chapter 11: Skipping Ahead
Onwards means homebound, and so in times of loneliness, the bicycle and the road are the ways out of it.
Chapter 10: Darbandikhan Dominoes
From the cute center, to the lush paradise above the dam, to the epic mountains of the east and back into town for one more game.
Chapter 9: Royal Treatment
I gave him my word that I would return to him. And If I give my word, I aim to keep it, or die trying.
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