Tamerlane's Thoughts

The day before my trip, I went to John's Cafe in the westernmost Xinjiang city of Kashgar to hire a driver. John's Cafe is strictly ...

In my quest to watch all the James Bond films in reverse chronological order, I come to the unofficial, bastard, 1983 film Never Say Never A...

A View to A Kill is rarely on any 007 devotee's list of favorites. In this, Roger Moore's last film, there are no Astons, Lotuses, o...

With Borat the movie coming out, the Kazakh government is stepping up its efforts to discredit the infamous journalist. Nursultan Nazabayev,...

After checking into my room in Kalaheo, an old paniolo town in southern Kauai, I decide to take a drive up to the Waimea Canyon. It's cl...

Disclaimer: When I say, neophyte, I mean it. I just started following F1 this season. In order to learn the background, I watched DVD summar...

On a recent trip to Maui, I decided to take the ferry to Lanai for a one-day jaunt. Tackling the Munro Trail in a 4x4 was my goal. Lonely Pl...

The Kolyma "Highway", or the Road of Bones, links the Russian Far East cities of Magadan (next to the Sea of Okhotsk) with Yakutsk...

A dozen years ago, Gordon Murray came up with the ultimate supercar. That a car built in the age of 14.4 modems, brick sized cell phones, an...

From a cannibalistic despot to the even-more-evil glass pipe vender/felon, the SM has a number of iconoclastic admirers. Both Amin and Chong...