Landing in Kathmandu: Part Two
I arrived in Kathmandu on the birthday of the Buddha and the city was alive with celebration. I climbed down from the plane into a heat...
The world is wider
"There is always an enormous temptation in all of life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for itsy-bitsy...
Landing in Kathmandu: Part One
Mount Everest as seen from Drukair2 PLW edit CC BY-SA 2.0 The journey from Guilin was a comedy of errors that lasted for 16 hours. It was...
On the roam again
I left Yangshuo on an evening like a furnace, dripping with humidity and sweltering with light. I left in a flurry of teary smiles and...
The beauty of befuddlement and many fond farewells
The heat has come to Yangshuo. It is thick and steaming and heavy, like a blanket whose down was spun from dew. It rains in rushes and...
