…Radio Parallax won the 2007 award as the lamest blog west of Reno and north of the Tropic of Cancer. Its not that our content was bad it is just that we have written exactly nothing since June 07. Our official position is that Doug was hit by lightning shortly after his last entry. The show is our blog really, but we swear we will try and do better starting this week.

We have some long range plans to try and get to Siberia for the August 1 solar eclipse, with subsequent visits to Kazakhstan and the “stans” south of it. Probably not Afghanistan, however, nor Pakistan. But viable candidates include Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Surely off the beaten tourist track in every case. If you have some advice for travel in these exotic locations, please drop us a line..It’s Official…