Lieber Transglobalistas— Tomorrow morning I finally depart from Manali for a 3-4 week bike tour. First leg is the famous Manali-Leh highway, 500km (310miles) and 7-9 days...
Today is day 3 in Kathgodam, en route to Manali, Himachal Pradesh. After a slew of unpleasant symptoms appeared during the night train from Gorakhpur, I decided to hole...
In this morning’s rather pleasant pre-heat, and while fixin’ to get ready to prepare to await the pending pre-departure of this evening’s exodus, I took...
transglobalistas— Today’s task was supposed to be simple: book a train ticket to someplace near Manali, board said train and travel towards said town. Nothing...
Well…talk about shit sneaking up on you. I’ve been running around like a chicken sans head (and believe me, I now know exactly what a headless running chicken...
In an effort to become somewhat less of a digital sharecropper for facebook, I have spent the last two days setting up images galleries here at transglobalist.com and porting...
[ Kot Village, Bhojpur District, Nepal – June 6, 2013] It’s mid-June. Early summer. Monsoon. I’m living in an area of eastern Nepal between the high Himalaya to the north,...
[Bhojpur Bazaar, Bhojpur, Nepal] dear readers— I’m sorry for the rushed posting (forgive any typos, etc), but I have very limited access to electricity, much less...
Well friends, I’m sitting on the 3rd floor landing of Red Planet Guest House in Kathmandu, packed and ready to go. I have a few final emails to send, a breakfast to eat,...