Thursday, 10 Apr 2014 | Views [431]
This one is a off the scale in terms of the old Disneyland A-E tickets. Although it ends up being one hour from wheels off to on the runway, and about 1/2 hour is spent either in smog or in clouds the Everest flight cannot be missed. Every ... Read more >
Wednesday, 9 Apr 2014 | Views [500]
I really didn't mean that title as a mountaineering double entendre. I do not believe that I gave the city much justice on my last post because I forgot to mention the scheduled power outages. The country seems to have been naughty in not ... Read more >
Tags: everest, trekking
Wednesday, 9 Apr 2014 | Views [379]
For the flying cognoscenti it was SAN-ORD-LHR-BKK-KTM.
Three hours to Chicago with a slightly early arrival for a tight connection to London. The only inconvenience was having to walk from C to B terminal. I forgot to mention that naturally ... Read more >
Wednesday, 9 Apr 2014 | Views [428] | Comments [1]
Elevation 1450m/4500ft
Well, here I am in Shangri La. Where the air is so polluted the risen sun appears as a fuzzy orange ball in a seipia cloud. Where the streets look like jigsaw puzzles topped with a cake of fine dust. Where ... Read more >
Tags: everest, trekking
