Like nomads, but with more stuff

When a person walks into a room, turns around in a circle and comes back out saying "I couldn't find it!", we call that ...

This week I had my first business trip, to Almaty.  Part of my job is meeting with people doing work in different parts of Kazakhstan. It w...

The other night we went for dinner with friends. They speak better Russian than we do, so when the hostess asked something as we were handi...

A friend kindly picked up tickets for us when she got tickets for herself this week, so on Friday we went to our first Kazakhstani hockey g...

We didn't have any more pockets of free time until Saturday morning so that is when we went to make our second attempt at getting tires...

This car is more needy than a newborn. When we realized what was missing from the car we immediately sent a confident message to the tran...

The car is here, cleared customs, registered, insured and ready to drive. We only noticed after we got it home that the windshield wipers h...

There's a gourmet food store in town that people talk about because they sometimes get in bacon. When Terry went to check it out last w...

Astana is a consumables, Pouch-only post. There are few non-dairy milks to be found around town and the only ones I have heard of so far ar...

We love us some farmers markets, rinok, produce stands, whatever you want to call them. Although we had a major packout fail this time an...