Sorry, but driving into Samarkand at sunset to see Timurlane’s mosque towering above the city, a questionable visa in the passport hidden under my pants, the desert heat blasting through our shuddering old Lada, was not the same as reading about Far Samarkand, as I’d done since age 11.
Gershom Gorenberg גרשום גורנברג
Reporter for The Free Press says there’s no point in going places yourself if you can read about them on Wikipedia.
Truly, the soul of a journalist.
