In Pictures: Asia - The View through the Windshield (Part 1)

The following photographs were taken "through the windshield" during my 14-month overland journey across Asia.  They are posted in order of date taken.  Enjoy!

Twenty minutes out of Sapa, Vietnam.  En route to the town of Dien Bien Phu.

Entering Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) after a several-hour drive from Dalat.

Passing through a town in the Mekong Delta.

En route from Bukit Lawang to Medan, Sumatra (Indonesia).  In front of us are kids on their way home from school.

Medan, Sumatra

One hour outside of Pekanbaru, Sumatra, the center of much of Indonesia's oil production.  The bus is on its way to a ferry, which will help get me to Singapore by the end of the day.

Nearing Zongdian, a town in China's Yunnan Province.

For five days I traveled illegally (without a permit) through eastern Tibet, starting at the Yunnan border and finishing in Lhasa.  Lots of rock slides.

Waiting for a train to pass in Rajastan, India.

Driving north on Pakistan's Karakoram Highway.  This car picked me up while hitchhiking.  The Indus River is to the right.

A week later a truck picked me up as I was hitchiking in China's Xinjiang Province, here going from Kashgar to the border of Kyrgyzstan.

Most of the roads in southern Kyrgyzstan were pretty bad, but this new highway near the city of Jalabad was snazzy.

Early-morning fog outside Sheki, Azerbaijan.  The Russian border was only several miles to my right.

Slowing down for the herd while driving in the mountains outside Tbilisi, Georgia.

This is one of the more poignant pictures for me, for I had just crossed through the Georgia-Turkey border.  After 13 months of border crossings, visa hassles, and logistical planning, all that remained ahead of me now was the length of Turkey and then a Delta flight home from Istanbul.  The Black Sea is to the right of the highway.

To view PART TWO of this series, click HERE.