Posted on 08/11/2018 10:42:35 AM PDT by Rummyfan
On August 7, the New York Times ran a story by Rukmini Callimachi about Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan, a young American couple, both graduates of Georgetown University, who decided to quit their humdrum office jobs and go on an epic bike ride and camping trip that would take them all over the world. “I’ve grown tired of spending the best hours of my day in front of a glowing rectangle, of coloring the best years of my life in swaths of grey and beige,” Austin wrote. “I’ve missed too many sunsets while my back was turned.”
So in July of last year, they flew from Washington, D.C., to Cape Town, and from there bicycled through South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, and Malawi to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. From there, they flew to Cairo, and after seeing the pyramids flew on to Casablanca, from which they cycled through Morocco, Spain, France, Monaco, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Greece, to Turkey. From there, another flight took them to Kazakhstan. They biked through Kyrgyzstan and entered Tajikistan. It was in that country that their journey came to an abrupt end this past July 29, when five ISIS members deliberately plowed their car into the two adventurers, killing them along with two temporary cycling companions, one from Switzerland and the other from the Netherlands. “Two days later,” wrote Callimachi, “the Islamic State released a video showing five men it identified as the attackers, sitting before the ISIS flag. They face the camera and make a vow: to kill 'disbelievers.'”
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One would think so but no... I'm surprised they got as far as they did. I mean kudos for them for a very ambitious trip plan, but ultimately reckless and foolish and naive.
Look
Kids
If yer gonna travel
Just go somewhere NOT run by Islamonazis ?
Or commies
Or psychotic locals
Got it ?
With that route I have to think it was to defy western talking points and show The Man that world peace can be visualized.
Give them a Darwin Award
To them, a ride through Trump country, filled with white people, was probably their worst nightmare route.
Just to rise to a point of order. How did the guys in the van know they were unbelievers?
Did they pay back their student loans before they went on the trip? As a taxpayer who funded their education, I want to know!
Anyone who thinks these Muslim immigrants are moving into Western countries to assimilate and not to conquer better pay attention to what their Imams are saying before it is too late. It might be too late for some European countries already.
Sad. Two foolish, naive leftists are now dead, and their fellow-traveling “fans” have clearly learned nothing.
An they peddled through Botswana? Peter Hathaway Capstick is amazed they survived that leg. He said there is nothing meaner than a Botswana lion.
Man, there are a lot of crazies out there.
‘Evil is a make-believe concept we’ve invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans holding values and beliefs and perspectives different than our own.”
Some of those different “values and beliefs and perspectives” are evil.
Tajikistan is a Level 2 country.
Just show them the movie Hostel first.
Seems like an expensive way to go. If they wanted to have dangerous adventure in a foreign land, they could have just spent a few hours cycling in Chicago.
Jay Austin “understood the nuts and bolts of housing policy and harbored a strong sense of disenchantment with the federal bureaucracy, calling public housing ‘a failed experiment’ and HUD ‘The Death Star.’”
https://reason.com/blog/2018/08/01/jay-austin-tiny-house-killed
“somewhere NOT run by Islamonazis ?”
“After a chase, one suspect was arrested and four were killed. The U.S. embassy praised the swift response by the Tajik government.”
https://reason.com/blog/2018/08/01/jay-austin-tiny-house-killed
“The Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program forgives the remaining balance on your Direct Loans after you have made 120 qualifying monthly payments under a qualifying repayment plan while working full-time for a qualifying employer.”
“Employment with the following types of organizations qualifies for PSLF:
Government organizations at any level (federal, state, local, or tribal)”
https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service
He was a foster child, so his parents didn’t pay.
He was only 29, so he didn’t have 10 years of service in.
They didn’t have big noses, didn’t have beards and didn’t stink of goat.
“At one point, Austin wrote, he’d been hit by two cars in five hours”
“On their blog, they described the kindness and generosity of strangers around the world as they biked through Africa, Europe and central Asia.”
“There were hard days, setbacks and acts of cruelty, too — strangers who tried to run them off the road, or push them off their bikes.”
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