All Good Things...
So, this will be weird. I’ve written tons of stuff to post, but the one thing that I never really understood until half way through the trip is that Iran has mostly 56.6 k dial-up (remember that) and it goes through frequent spats of downtime. I have almost 1,500 photos, 60 hours of unedited audio, 100 hours of unedited video, and virtual reams of blog entries. So, how to upload them?
Now that I have a bit of reflection time I think that I will commit myself to one post on Iran per day for the next week, then we’ll see where we are. There will be some real surprises, and I’m not really sure that I want to post them in chronological order as my memories aren’t necessarily in chronological order. I am decided that the final post will be a writing that I’ve been working on throughout this trip titled “Assumptions.” “Assumptions” is my reflection on the presuppositions I made before going to Iran, and how most of them were altered, or slightly skewed, of just flat out wrong.
Currently, I’m sitting in the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, that’s right, I entered the “Axis of Evil” and lived to tell the tale... and I can’t wait to return. If it wasn’t for the constant fear of what my own government will do to that wonderfully rich, ancient, creative, hospitable, diverse and multi-faceted gem of a country, I might even take my wife and children.
So, I begin with these photos and my first entry of writing from Iran will be posted from JFK.
much peace,
sean
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