The list of places I want to visit to but never will has just increased by one. I’ve bitched for several years that thanks to failed socialism (but I repeat myself) Jamie and I will never see Angel Falls and the Catatumbo Lightning Fields, both in Venezuela. The political situation is far too unstable and the crime rate is far too high to take the risk. Now we can add to that list one more wanna-see destination that will soon be off-limits — The Gates of Hell in lovely Turkmenistan. I read an article that said Turkmenistan is closing The Gates of Hell and then as sort of an afterthought added that the country has no tourism infrastructure. It has nothing for tourists to see … Continue reading Ashgabad, Turkmenistan: Closing The Gates of Hell