When I was in New York I had an afternoon to walk around. It rained pretty much every day I was back east except the last. So I trekked up t o CPW and went to the Natural History Museum. There was an exhibit going on called the Traveling the Silk Road. It was actually pretty fun. It was geared towards children...? maybe... but I learned a ton. It started in China with silk production, then to Turfan for the night markets and Furs, then to Samarkand to see the paper making and glassblowing ending up in Baghdad. The silk road is something that is extremely alluring. To travel the same roads that so many people have traveled for thousands of years for goods, food, and most importantly silk. Silk has monopolized commerce for thousands of years. It is incredible that one product is still to this day harvested and used in the same ways as it was when it was first discovered. People have written many books on the subject and people retrace the steps and travel the Silk Road to this day. While there are plenty of countries that the Silk Road goes through that aren't easy to travel, including Iran, it is still something that would be a life changing adventure.
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