Bilbo Baggins had some wise travel words for Frodo…. It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to. I thought of these words when I anxiously set off to trek Afghanistan’s Pamir Mountains. […]
It’s taken me a while to absorb my trip to Afghanistan trekking through the high altitude Wakhan Corridor, which once formed a arduous section of the 4,000 mile silk route. Few have ventured into this cutoff corner of the world where little has changed in a thousand years. The blissful feeling of flopping on a mattress at the […]
I’ve got a big oh-nooooooo birthday approaching. The one where the second digit clocks up to a nicely rounded off zero and my time on this earth enters a new decade. While I took deep breaths into a paper bag, my saint-of-a-husband asked me what I wanted to mark the big crisis occasion. “Let’s go […]