Vietnam Redo (part 3): Long and Tall
I have always wanted to ask a puppet, in private, what it is like to be enslaved and forced to do its master’s bidding, subject to being...
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edgardavidboshart
Oct 24, 20183 min read
Vietnam Redo (part 2): Peace and Mayhem
Hanoi (Ha Noi, “river’s inner”) is a large sprawling beehive(s) of activity, spotted with large construction projects and relentless...
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edgardavidboshart
Oct 18, 20184 min read
Vietnam Redo; 2018 (Intro)
I visited North Vietnam the first time roughly 10 years ago. The country then had already moved on from the previous century of...
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edgardavidboshart
Oct 12, 20183 min read
Bight of Kennebunk: Travel Destination
“The swallow has set her six young on the rail, and looks seaward.” James Lee’s Wife (1864, pt 3 st.1), Robert Browning Before Autumn...
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edgardavidboshart
Aug 31, 20181 min read
Off to Southeast Asia (Again)
Tomorrow I leave for another visit to Vietnam and Cambodia for a couple of weeks. It has been 10 years since I was in these two...
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edgardavidboshart
Jul 11, 201820 min read
The Cuba Connection: A complete travel summary
Cuba Connection — 2018 (*Photos have been selected at random) A Metaphor Walking the streets of Havana in March 2018, I spied a man in a...
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edgardavidboshart
Jun 1, 20186 min read
Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue and Discovered Cuba Too (but not North America)
Cristobal Colon (Christopher Columbus) never set foot or planted the flag for the Crown of Castille on North America. However, he found...
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edgardavidboshart
May 18, 20181 min read
Cuba: Cars Imprisoned; Car Finds Jesus
Even before touring the city of Havana proper, I am enthralled by the alternating flow of shiny and rumpled, rusting metal objects on the...
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edgardavidboshart
Mar 19, 20184 min read
Iran: 21rst Century Perspective
Before leaving Iran, it is only fitting in a way that I/we step away from the beauty and progressive qualities on display in the country...
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edgardavidboshart
Mar 16, 20183 min read
Palaces of Isfahan
On the western side of Isfahan’s grand square looms the Ali Qapu, a towering pavilion topped by pillars, under reconstruction, and behind...
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edgardavidboshart
Mar 2, 20183 min read
Half of the World: Isfahan
In the wilderness about 200 miles south of Tehran is a place called “Half of the World.” Ishfahan, twice the capital of Persia, was the...
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edgardavidboshart
Feb 23, 20181 min read
Shiraz (II); House of Mirrors, Reflections on the Self
Shiraz, Iran is a poet's (Hafiz's) oasis, where the art of Islam has prominence
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edgardavidboshart
Feb 9, 20185 min read
Palaces of Persepolis - Theater of Conquerors
I arrived at the ruins of Persepolis, near Shiraz, with great anticipation. The skies were clear and the sun burned hot even in...
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edgardavidboshart
Jan 29, 20183 min read
Windcatchers
The historical vibrations of Persia really begin to hit home in the central desert towns of Iran, especially in the large city of Yazd —...
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edgardavidboshart
Jan 12, 20183 min read
Eternal Flame - Tower of Death
Modern Iran is certainly a paragon of Islam but the country’s culture also has deep roots in the ancient mostly unrecorded Zoroastrian...
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edgardavidboshart
Dec 8, 20172 min read
Oasis of Kashan, Iran, Part I
Traveling through Iran-Persia from Tehran to Kashan
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edgardavidboshart
Dec 2, 20173 min read
Goodbye Tehran
While Tehran has much human drama to keep a first-time or umpteenth-time visitor entertained, the heart of Iran still beats in the...
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edgardavidboshart
Nov 17, 20174 min read
The Lion of Persia
Whose head is that? The Lion and Sun (شیر و خورشید, Shir o Khorshid) emblem (holding a shamshir, scimitar) remained the official...
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edgardavidboshart
Oct 27, 20173 min read
The Bazaar of Wares and Religion
Iran/Persia is the torn heart of Central Asia (Asia Minor). Secular China is the body, Byzantine Russia the head, the Hindu Indian...
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edgardavidboshart
Oct 20, 20173 min read
Tehran: The Many Become One
Cosmopolitan Smog - view from Tochal Ski Mountain Tehran, the largest city and capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran, fans out below...
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