2019 · China to Europe
Dispatches from the Silk Road
Eleven pieces written on the road between China and Europe in late 2019, most of them from trains. They run in the order I travelled, not the order they were posted.
There are no things, only process.— from the first dispatch
01
“Why The Silk Road?”Seven years of saving, and the flight in 2012 that started it
24 Nov 2019
02
Time For Tokyo?Japan, before the overland leg begins
24 Nov 2019
03
Loco Motives in ChinaHong Kong to Wuhan at 300km/h
24 Nov 2019
04
Welcome to WuhanCentral China
30 Nov 2019
05
Xi’anThe eastern end of the old road
30 Nov 2019
06
Urumqi, ChinaXinjiang, where the map stops being familiar
10 Dec 2019
07
Almaty, KazakhstanOver the border
21 Dec 2019
08
Kazakh TrainsAlmaty to Shymkent, a journal
21 Dec 2019
09
Shymkent KazakhstanGetting off at a stop in a completely foreign country
22 Dec 2019
10
Caspian Sea — Baku, AzerbaijanLanding on Thanksgiving night to a planeload of applause
22 Dec 2019
11
Georgia On My MindThe end of the road
25 Dec 2019
All eleven live on Medium, where they were written. The full archive is here.