Jackson under the full moon, Tehran in the background. 5/7 Day 3 This morning is more emotionally intense than I was expecting. Shahrokh sleeps in so he is missing out on visiting Iman Khomeini Shrine, the huge unfinished multi-million dollar building where the Ayatollah Khomeini’s body is interned. On the subway out we are getting […]
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It’s been very hard to get online to do updates. Please go to this link for some voicemail audio updates: www.drop.io/outtheremonthly (please cut and paste the link).
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When this shopkeeper saw that I was admiring his ostrich eggs he said “Awesome” and insisted I take his picture with them. 5/7: Day Two in Tehran Most people mistake us for Germans. When we say we are American we often get a raised eyebrow-look that translates into “Oh really?” Sometimes we get a little
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Sign in window of leather goods store in North Tehran. Sign is turned sideways. It’s hard for me to get online and the connections are slow here so this blog entry is kind of long. Check my Twitter entries too (I can’t say the word “tweet”) at @jonbsnyder. 5/5 The 9 hour flight to London
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This beauty is an Iranian 10K Rial note. Despite it’s elegant engraving and nice colors it’s only worth about one dollar. Right now Pam, Tom, Zach, Shahrokh, Jackson and I are all in the Denver airport waiting for our flight to London. Shahrokh gave the boys a fat wad of Iranian bills. The boys are
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