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‘Sit there’, he commanded, pointing his rifle towards the sand- filled sacks pushed against the walls of the main room. The tiny three- roomed stone bungalow was damp and freezing, yet despite this...

Wyoming is wildly, unaccountably vast. Its relentless desert landscape, home to just half a million people, goes on for miles. Birds flap, hopelessly, in the blue void of the sky.

The officers were putting their foot down; we were sprinting as fast as one can with 15 kilos of pannier bags stuffed with the essentials for life, but we could not catch the police car.

I offered to let a girl call Jesse stay with me for three months, she emailed from New York State, except when she arrived ‘she’ was a he, Jesse; a man’s name in America.

“Bule, bule” I hear as I nervously approach the run-down shack of a clinic engulfed in a labyrinth of corrugated iron dwellings.

When people asked about travel encounter usually one will opt to tell the wonderful time they had and the interesting thing they saw however I couldn't say the same thing about my own encounter.

"I'm afraid you now owe a fine of €10," the benevolent French ticket controller stated matter-of-factly. "What? For not stamping our stupid train tickets? We didn't even know we had to!" retorted the Barbie-like girl seated in front of me.

It started a week a go, before 8th of October 2011. A friend of mine, Ache offered me to spend weekend at her home in Gili Meno.

Can you imagine how the sensational feeling would be, if you could see sunrise from 2770 m height above sea level?