An excerpt, the first part written, of a longer Silk Road trip, focusing on a two-night train journey from the lower Volga in Russia to Karakalpakstan, in the north-western corner of Uzbekistan. Very little seems to happen, and yet there felt much to say.
The piece is in four parts:
1. A River
2. Depression
3. Plateau
4. The River
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