Baku: Just scribblin’

It’s about 1:38 here in Baku and it’s been a busy afternoon here in the lobby of the Hotel Absheron. After a day of catching up on sleep, floundering around in a hotel that’s smaller than my first college dorm room and trying to figure out the internet here, it’s been a good day.
I followed [...]

Heading to … Baku

It started rather unassuming, a beautiful late summer day, a cool breeze and a temperature teetering in the low 70’s.
This was the start of my journey. The most amazing thing about starting trip is how it started, from a train station. The only other time I’d been on a train is either a subway or [...]

Baku: Absheron

Where to begin?
I’m sweating my – for lack of a better term — face off in a glorified Econo Lodge. Getting here from Frankfurt was a bit more relaxing than I thought it would be, but here’s the run-down.
I ended up walking around the airport in Frankfurt for about an hour and then found my [...]