On the drive to Afghanistan, in his disguise of traditional Muslim dress, complete with fake beard, Amir suffers from carsickness again. He leaves Pakistan immediately, though Rahim Khan wanted more time to prepare. Amir fears he will change his mind if he hesitates. He decides not to tell Soraya of the trip, fearing that she will only worry and perhaps will insist on traveling to Pakistan herself.
As he rides through Afghanistan with his guide, Farid, he comments that he feels like a tourist, so changed is the landscape. Farid comments, scathingly, that privileged people always do, because they were outsiders even while living in Afghanistan. They stop in Jalalabad for the night. As Farid's family questions his life in America, out of polite interest, Amir feels ashamed of his writing. It seems.....
