Trice’s Reviews > On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer > Status Update

Feeling very impatient with his youth
Interesting to read of his first experience with hash and thus with marijuana
And his time in the markets bargaining and being bargained

Backed up to restart
Trying to remember this is when he was college aged do a long while ago
On the Road with very limited perspective
We’re going through Afghanistan

Fun and skimming right along, but also
How nice for them to be 1. men 2. wealthy westerners 3. unconcerned with reciprocating all the giving from hosts and new “friends”
Men stripped down to underwear and jumped into the river to get off the stink on the bus ride to Tehran…he doesn’t mention what any of the women riding the bus did

Feeling the need for audio company but picky/grumpy about what it would be. I had actually forgotten I’d borrowed this. Fine I’ll listen to the beginning and see.

The *glee* of that intro, traveling east from Europe along the Silk Road and yes indeed