I revel in the queue these days. Lines speak to me. New driver’s license, new medicare card, wait for a flight to arrive, wait to exchange my krone back to dollars. I get to go through it all over again, as slowly as possible. I…
and 24 hours and 2 buses, one minivan, and 1 long shared jeep ride back up into the mountains, and we’ve arrived in Darjeeling. The new motto, as it was forcefully impressed upon us by our guesthouse owner, Lama, is ‘beat the heat’. Stay in…
Almost three weeks into Nepal, and we are about to head off on our second trek, this one to the Langtang Valley. Baffled at how nothing in Kathmandu’s bpacker district has any breakfast or even a tea shop open before 7am. Bleary eyed Nepalis, c’mon!…
We've been in Kathmandu for one day, and I've already: Hit a motorbike. The sky was dark, the masses of shops to my left, bright and appealing. With my feet walking, but my head turned sideways, I strolled smack into a parked bike. The two…
