Daily Archives: September 15, 2011

We bump at 15mph along the stony road, a brown cliff rising steeply to our left, the great roiling mass of the Oxus (now called the Panj) following to our right.

The river’s turbulent slate-grey waters move in the opposite direction from us, and far more swiftly than we can.   We are in Tajikistan. If my pitching arm were any good, I could say we were a stone’s throw away from Afghanistan, which claims the other bank of the Oxus for its own.
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