August 12, 2016

We just returned from a last minute vacation in Tajikistan, spent in a nice little apartment that Amos found at the very last minute, thanks to Air BnB.

                                                      

Highlights included the various parks we visited and the vintage Soviet electric bus system. Actually, everything vintage in Tajikistan in Soviet...you can almost hear the depressing Russian techno beat in the background even when it isn't actually playing...which it usually is. But the parks are completely Persian.

                                               

Picnic at Varzob lake...

Zadok looks a little shell shocked because he spent the night before being sampled by all the mosquitoes for miles around. Then I bought a miraculous cream of Russian origin which seemed to act as a insect repellent as well as an itch soother, and life became much better.

Zadok does his best Communist Dictator pose underneath the massive Tajik flag in Rudaki Park.

Good times all around. It's so fun to just stroll around as a family. I think that's really all it takes to make a great vacation.