Bananas Don't Travel WellBananas Don't Travel Well

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    • China
      • Shanghaied
      • Approaching the Middle Kingdom
      • Mei ban fa
      • Goodbye Ramadan, Hello China
    • Kyrgyzstan
      • Shashlyk and jailoos
      • From Kochkor to Karakol
      • Foolishness at 3800 meters
      • Long road to China
    • Uzbekistan
      • Do you know Viagra?
      • Taking care of business
    • Turkmenistan
      • Turkmenbashy's vision
      • Fire and brimstone
    • Azerbaijan
      • Flaming gold teeth
      • High pastures of pain
    • Georgia
      • Pork, sweat and beer
      • Cooling off in the Caucasus
    • Turkey
      • Turkey—without the beach
    • Syria
      • Bosra's black ruins
      • Rubble, ruin and rocks
      • Damascus, Aleppo, and the Axis of Evil
    • Jordan
      • Petra rocks
      • A week in Amman
    • Egypt
      • To Cairo
      • The Nile valley almost defeats us
      • Escape to the Sinai
    • Portugal
      • Fattening up in Portugal
    • Italy
      • Heathrow = Hell
      • Italy through glazed eyes
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Italy | Portugal | Egypt | Jordan | Syria | Turkey | Georgia | Azerbaijan | Turkmenistan | Uzbekistan | Kyrgyzstan | China | Taiwan | Philippines

Damascus | Bosra | Palmyra | Dead Cities | Apamea | Hama | Aleppo | Krak des Chevaliers | Lattakia | Saladin's castle | Al Ma'ara

lion and gazelle mosaic
lion and gazelle mosaic
closeup of lion mosaic
closeup of lion mosaic
bus to Al Ma'ara
bus to Al Ma'ara
bus driver
bus driver
boys on the bus
boys on the bus
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