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,...
In which a Tibetan plants a seed, a Quest is joined, and Willis survives the dried raisins. ***** First let me give you some behind-the-scenes info. A couple of days ago I intended...
“Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.” —Andrew Grove When it comes to adventure activities, routine is a double-edged...
It’s a rainy, dreary day here in Pokhara. My first. At 12:30 the streets are atypically barren, traffic-free aside from the occasional optimistic cabbie pulling alongside...
Trying to find somewhere to sit comfortably and write on this lazy Saturday afternoon, I wander up to the roof of my guesthouse (home of the infamous $4.25/night view, see above),...
O to have known back then that I’d be spending a year or more in Nepal, Land of Karma! Had I known then of my current Way, I’d never have sent him that horrible, evil...
Despite my best intentions to write a playfully taunting post about how much more epic my day was than that of the average bear (an animal far better looking than my friend...
In Which a Transglobal Juggernaut Arrives at Nepal Base Camp (aka Houston) If one can fairly refer to preparatory activities for Project Cancel-Current-Life-and-Move-to-Nepal-Because-Why-The-Hell-Not...
[ Dallas, TX ] As promised elsewhere, I spent a fortnight or so this past October exploring Turkey by foot and wing. The extended details of this excursion will follow eventually,...