My Story, So Far

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I've had a few readers ask me to create a post with links to my favorite, best, or most germane posts thus far on Gather.com as there are 23 pages of them. So, here is a feeble attempt at bring you all up to speed on the last few years of my life's journey:

Here's my first post on Gather. It was about ATT's attempt to copyright 'emoticons.' Talk about a brazen thing to do.

In the early days there was a whole lot of political posts, most really aren't worth going back over. But there were some travel posts and posts on and about my life worth reviewing.

There was a humorous post about getting Iranian visas. Then there's this post on reminisces about my father and I in Uzbekistan.

Then there is this post about oilmen in the Republic of Georgia, from a trip I made there in 2003. And here's a post on the Great Wall of China I did whilst there a few years back.

There is this post on why reading history is so important.

And then there are these three important posts (here and here and here) on what I would have done had I been president after the invasion of Afghanistan. And here's another important historical post on Iraq.

Here's a rather prescient post on power politics between Georgia, the US and Russia.

A soliloquy on the Hagia Sophia (my muse) in Istanbul. Here's a background post on my Silk Road book. More prescience on Afghanistan.

Here's a post on the difference between Arabs and Persians (i.e. Iranians).

And here are the posts from my travels in Iran. (Here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here.)

After my journey to Iran I went to Oaxaca, Mexico where there had been massive, bloody riots for weeks. (Here and here and here and here and here.)

I then went to Ethiopia. (Here and here and here and here and here.)

My travel stopped for a while, as my marriage was collapsing at this point, as well as a host of other issues were happening that made life pretty miserable. I blogged here at Gather only about politics and then disappeared. With only one post, a kind of looking back at my time in Iran cropping up. I didn't return to Gather for more than a year. Here was my first post upon my return: Our Long National Obsession With Cars.

This was quickly followed by some more personal posts. One on Serendipity, another on Tropical Rain and then followed by two retrospectives of my time in Istanbul, here and here.

If you are looking for a window into my emotional make up these are a good place to start. I then did a short review of 'The Snow Leopard.' Then there is the story of my 'boom and bust.' This was quickly followed by my announcement that I was leaving my job and hitting the road, for good. The rest of the story is pretty accessible from there and you can catch up on your own.

But these are what I would consider the most important posts about me and by me. Enjoy.

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