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Hitching from England to Istanbul

By Tom | Published: January 25, 2009
Face­book has man­aged to almost entirely replace email as a form of elec­tronic com­mu­nic­a­tion amongst friends. While I dis­like the immense waste of human energy that is poured into it, I decided to use it to con­duct a small exper­i­ment. I would allow my Face­book friends one chance to dir­ectly affect my life in the [...]
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Home For Christmas

By Tom | Published: December 7, 2008
Good even­ing. I’m writ­ing from the opu­lent lux­ury of my par­ents’ home! But the lux­ury doesn’t come from cent­ral heat­ing, a hot shower, or a well-stocked fridge (although these things are most enti­cing). No, the true lux­ury is the feel­ing of hav­ing a per­man­ent base to come back to, some­thing I haven’t had for almost [...]
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It’s Not All Bad News

By Tom | Published: November 14, 2007
I know you like read­ing about our mis­for­tune. It’s dra­matic stuff. I like writ­ing about it, too, try­ing to com­mit the exper­i­ence to words and take you to that place and time. I hope that the res­ults are enter­tain­ing, but also resemble the real­ity of what happened, too — exag­ger­a­tion and artistic license are not [...]
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At Least It Happened In A Big City

By Tom | Published: November 1, 2007
Andy and I have been soak­ing up Istan­bul for a fair while now. We’re both itch­ing to get on the road again, and I’m excited and a little appre­hens­ive at the pro­spect of see­ing through the winter in Cent­ral Asia. But we’ve had more than our fair share of hic­cups, and they are still pre­vent­ing [...]
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Thoughts From the Far End of Europe

By Tom | Published: October 21, 2007
We arrived in Istan­bul a couple of days ago, cyc­ling into this sprawl­ing mono­lith of a city along one of the two main routes against about 9 manic lanes of rush-hour traffic, minibuses and not-so-mini-buses. That exper­i­ence recovered from, we have again been enjoy­ing the hos­pit­al­ity of a vari­ety of city-dwellers cour­tesy of the Couch­surf­ing [...]
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