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[ New Delhi, India ] I’ve had a bit of time in between medical errands to start working through a rather large backlog of stories. Besides, I owe you guys some tales...

[ Pokhara, Nepal ] On the morning of Wednesday, April 23rd, seventy-eight year old Ganesh Kumari Shrestha—my Nepali mom, my aamaa—fell from her upstairs balcony onto a stone...

[ Pokhara & Kathmandu ] Over the last two weeks, I have forwarded a spate of news your way, most of it bad. First there was the sudden descent into serious illness by skydiving...

[ Kathmandu, Nepal ] T.I.N. This Is Nepal. It’s one of the first morsels of wisdom a veteran Nepali traveller will impart to a first-timers. Over the last two years, I’ve...

[ Pokhara, Nepal ] I was recently approached by a most excellent friend1 to answer a handful of spousally-posed questions about skydiving and BASE jumping, with the answers...

[ Pokhara, Nepal ] Not to pile on with bad news, but I just needed to share this burden. Please bear with me. When I went downstairs yesterday morning to update Pramod on Mike’s...

[ Pokhara, Nepal ] (featured image by Guntram Ochs: Mike Boman in Kot, March 2014) From mid-February to mid-March of this year, my stateside friend Mike Boman joined me in Nepal...

[ Pokhara, Nepal ] At this point in my life, I’ve cycled well over 25,000 miles throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. That’s 40,000 kilometers. It’s...

[ Pokhara, Nepal ] Fifty. I dislike uttering the number, much less invoking it in print. Yet…it is my number. Fifty. Weighty, somber, numerologically suggestive, round....