My next ride was not so serene.  After waiting about an hour at the train station in Zugdidi, I caught a marshutka headed directly for Tblisi.  Unfortunately, 10 minutes or so out […]

I crossed the Abhazia/Georgia border by foot.  I had anticipated problems in reentering Georgia, as I’d stayed longer than I had thought in Abkhazia (30 days rather than 10).  But […]

Still in Georgia, I awoke in the north Caucasus range in the small village of Stephantsminda and found a marshutka to the road just south of Mskheta.  There I found a […]

“Look into the yellow light” said my new Finnish friend with whom I talked for 4 of the 9 hours of flight time from SFO to LHR (London Heathrow).  As […]