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“Buy the ticket, take the ride. “

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BRADEN MONTGOMERY HITS A WALK-OFF HOMER IN HIS MAJOR LEAGUE DEBUT!

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@PhateOfMan @kay_dub_h Trolling? With the internet I can fuck your whole life up Barry so I’d advise to fuck off

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Braden Montgomery, the White Sox No. 2 prospect, will reportedly be called up to the Majors, per multiple reports including https://t.co/Z3s2EpgF39’s @scottmerkin.

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Good night

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Who's this iconic musician?

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In 1960s-70s, dedicated American hippies rode buses with Ken Kesey and Timothy Leary, traversing the nation on a perpetual acid trip. But this was lightweight stuff compared to the journeys taken along the Hippie Trail, an alternative Silk Road that wound through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Nepal. There’s still a street in Kathmandu dedicated to these countercultural pilgrims, who traveled the world in pursuit of good hash and spiritual enlightenment: the Nepalis call it Old Freak Street.

Referring to themselves as “Intrepids,” these young, long-haired American and European drop-outs left messages scrawled for each other on the walls of The Pudding Shop in Istanbul, offering travel tips and promising to reunite on the streets of Kashmir or the beaches of Goa. Enterprising locals quickly capitalized on the boom in Western wanderlust, operating low-budget bus fleets (Swagman Tours was known as the “Asian Greyhound”) and dirt-cheap hostels — while pointing young hippies to the best local marijuana sources. Religious leaders even got in on the action, with some Indian and Nepali gurus specializing in transcendental awakening for foreigners.

The Hippie Trail reached its zenith in the early and mid-1970s, after two decades of growing Western countercultural interest in nomadism and Eastern spirituality. Kerouac had glorified life on the American road in the 1950s. By the 1960s, Allen Ginsburg had relocated to Varanasi, and the Beatles had moved into an Indian ashram. At home, Eastern aesthetics and philosophies were becoming deeply ingrained in hippie, freak and drop-out culture. Increasingly, hardcore hippies felt the urge to visit the source. Most followed the Istanbul-to-India route, but some detours were common: Jimi Hendrix popularized the Moroccan town of Essaouira, while Australian travelers were especially drawn to Southeast Asia.

“In underground publications such as International Times, Oz, and Frendz we were reading reports of far off, exotic lands where hash was cheap, strong and readily available and where one could exist on as little as a pound a day,” remembers Tony Walton, who left in England to hit the trail in 1973. “On the classifieds pages were ads for overland buses that would take you all the way from Europe to Nepal in just four weeks. The overland route was becoming an increasingly popular rite of passage amongst disillusioned western freaks.”

In 1972, a married British couple named Maureen and Tony Wheeler hoofed it all the way from London to Singapore. Upon return, they wrote a booklet called Across Asia on the Cheap — the first Lonely Planet travel guide. It told you where to have your “last drag” of pot before you crossed into Iran, and where to donate blood for good money if you were running low on cash. (Another way of recouping expenses, not mentioned in the guide, was to hide hash in a jelly jar and smuggle it back to the West for resale — what came to be known as “Kandahar jam.”)

Across Asia on the Cheap inspires nostalgia not just for a lost cultural moment, but for the ease of travel in countries that are now either inaccessible or too dangerous for Westerners. “In Afghanistan in particular you can get stoned just taking a deep breath in the streets,” it reads. “You can get a magic bus from Lahore direct to Kabul — look for notices in the freak hangouts.”

Head East!, a travel guide published in 1973 with the subtitle “High Adventures in High Places,” recommends spots in Tabriz, Iran where travelers can, “socialize, pick up rides, chicks, guys, etc.” The author also recommends a hotel in Tehran where “the manager is a very cantankerous guy, but he appreciates freaks.” In Meshad, “people are not wired and there is a cooled out vibe about the whole town.”

📷 : A traveler bus overheated near Jerash, Jordan, in 1966. (📷©Eastmed Wanderer)

© Meagan Day

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12:6 curve

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What’s your favorite pitch?

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What’s your favorite pitch?

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Yogi Berra. 3 MVP Awards, 13 World Series rings. Machine gunner at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944.

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Randy Arozarena responded to chirps from a fan the best way possible

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I remember this game. And the hype up to it. Anyone remember the Strausburger?

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The first message to reach Britain confirming the success of D-Day wasn’t sent by radio... it was carried by a pigeon.

Gustav flew 150 miles through heavy cloud, 30mph headwinds and German hawks to deliver the news.

This is the story of the bird that helped win D-Day:
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