tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724930315004233772024-03-13T19:31:09.086-07:00GeoffghanistanGeoffghanistanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06844044135267194577noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-172493031500423377.post-66495326956688702972010-12-13T16:12:00.000-08:002010-12-13T16:12:15.453-08:00India 2003<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a picture of my second trip to India. I had just bought my 2000 Royal Enfield Bullet 350. It came with the name Joanna May, apparently the girlfriend of the fellow who owned the bike previously.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the woman who sold me my bike, the proprieter of Joga Motors in New Delhi. She drives a hard bargain, but she is fair and a good woman. She will treat you like family.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Geoffghanistanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06844044135267194577noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-172493031500423377.post-60138774164866152562010-12-13T16:08:00.000-08:002010-12-13T16:08:17.421-08:00Welcome to Geoffghanistan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPx646CxoHMdsM19O51AUIQcQPtuXRWLBa49BeQXb3DNgqYvMO3I41R2NvyF7_P_5AyOJ9mwDCkjXjkFH0NYTRLnLWLjkXsDodZRTqLOki1dT7FvDzjUgl1RAqo8DHNmLbIfCLl0x9M6c/s1600/DSC00340.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPx646CxoHMdsM19O51AUIQcQPtuXRWLBa49BeQXb3DNgqYvMO3I41R2NvyF7_P_5AyOJ9mwDCkjXjkFH0NYTRLnLWLjkXsDodZRTqLOki1dT7FvDzjUgl1RAqo8DHNmLbIfCLl0x9M6c/s320/DSC00340.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Geoffghanistan started as an idea for a website. In May of 2002 I got a call from a family friend, asking if I would like to go live and work in Afghanistan. I would teach English and build a computer lab for the medical students at Kabul Medical Institute. I had done some travelling in Southeast Asia, and had aspirations of going back someday, so I jumped at the opportunity to expand my horizons. I would also be so close to India, a country and culture that, in 1993, captured my heart on one of my first adventures outside of my home country. Initially, I was going to be working in Kabul for one year. This stretched out to two-and-a-half years and much more than my original teaching and building plan.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Dr. Hadley and Dr. Wright in the makeshift pathology lab that would soon become a server room for my computer lab.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Alas, Geoffghanistan.com is no longer. I may decide to bring it back someday, but for now, I have downsized to a blog. When I started the website I had been working for an internet company in Bend, Oregon. Hosting was free. Now it's not, and that's that.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">From left: Radek Spinka, Dr. Ken Wright, Geoffghanistan, and Dieter Hang</span></td></tr>
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</div>So many things have happened to me in the Geoffghanistan years. This blog will be a collection of some of those stories, pictures and other entertainment. I will also, inevitably post about current and planned travel (I am going to France in 3 days, and India in 3 months) as I go.<br />
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Welcome to Geoffghanistan.Geoffghanistanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06844044135267194577noreply@blogger.com2