Our days in Central Asia are numbered, which means Partout will soon go into hibernation.
Do you have questions about the Stans, any particular Stan, our trip, our sanity or anything else before we close?
We are standing by! Post your question(s) into the comment section of Partout, and we’ll try to answer them while the answers are fresh.
Partout with Louis & Doris 
Doris! I love reading about all your adventures! Thank you for including me. I am curious about Kyrgyzstan as my nephew and his wife will be stationed there with the embassy next year. What’s the air quality? Safety issues? They’ve been in New Delhi for two years and have had enough of toxic air and noise pollution.
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Deb! I love seeing you here! Where in KYRG will they be? Bishkek? The State Dept currently rates it safer than Paris. We felt safe everywhere in the Stans except from some of the crazy drivers. The biggest air quality problem we noticed in KYRG was all the dust kicked up by construction.
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Around 1990, Peter was briefly interested in taking a position in a couple of the Stans, I think Kyrgistan and Zahzakastan (sps?). The post reports discussed double wide trailers for housing and gave reports of the wild dog situation in the capitals.
Sounds like it changed quite a bit.
One of my hesitancies then, as it would be now, was how I would feel as an American woman going about daily life in such an isolated and conservative Moslem country. I am curious about how Doris thinks about that, both as a tourist, and what it would like to be more than passing through. What would life be like for a young girl going to school?
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I love this photo of you two….Is it in Khiva? Best regards, Ladd (571) 236-7655 m
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Bukhara! We liked it even better than Khiva.
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Hi Doris and Louis,Bill and I have loved your travelogue, but it has left us wanting for more. Will you, by any chance, be publishing an expanded versi
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You two are amazing. How do you go about finding local drivers and guides when you make your trips? [And I hope you expand on some of your experiences when you have time and internet.]
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Doris and Louis,
This morning I reread your Partout of your Stans trip; it is a glorious journey!
The photos are magnificent, and I’ll go back to look at them again and again. I’ve seen pictures of those golden horses before and thought the photos weren’t real — they’re known as the most beautiful horses in the world and have won Olympic gold and silver medals for dressage. Apparently they can do everything.
Enjoy your trip home. Louis, you would not like this morning in suburban Virginia. At 9 AM it’s 45º, up from 40 half an hour ago!
Safe journeys! Jeannie
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I am worried my other posts never made it! Hopefully this one will! I love this blog. Questions:
1. Did you get car sick? What was the driving too much seeing things ratio?
2. What was the Silk Road like?
3. Did you feel the culture in each of the Stan’s was that distinct?
4. Would you recommend all things you did or what might you forego?
5. Was there a highlight to top everything?
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Leave it to you to post questions it would take a whole blog to answer! 😝 Tay tuned. They are all great questions.
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I have been loving this blog. C and I are thinking about a stans trip on 2027, amd look forward to taking advantage of all your wisdom. Think there is any benefit to joining it up with any or all of Armenia / Azerbaijan/ Georgia? It would that be just too much?
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Did you lose anything? What did you buy?
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Good questions. We bought a few ceramics and an embroidered tote bag in Samarkand and a miniature painting and exquisite tiny pomegranate box in Bukhara. We could have bought much more, but we were traveling light. As for losing anything, I’ll answer after the last flight touches down! Don’t want to jinx anything now!
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