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We travel not for trafficking alone; By hotter winds our fiery hearts are fanned: For lust of knowing what should not be known We take the Golden Road to Samarkand. -James Elroy Flecker In September, 4 good friends and I set out to discover the beauty of Uzbekistan. We began our journey in the West…