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GUATEMALA | Thursday, 20 Sep 2007 | Views [983]
After four days of intense study, we are rewarded with a trip to Fuentes Georginas after class for today's cultural activity. It takes us nearly an hour by car to wind up the mountain side, taking in the gorgeous views of the volcanos and steaming ... Read more >
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NEPAL | Thursday, 26 Apr 2007 | Views [920]
We have crossed the finish line yesterday afternoon, and are resting our weary bodies in Pokhara. In the scuba diving world, before rising to altitudes after being far below sea levels, we take staged decompression stops, to allow our lungs & oxygen ... Read more >
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NEPAL | Wednesday, 25 Apr 2007 | Views [879]
Village life is a tough life. Most of the guest houses are second homes for rich Nepali Gurkhas. Gurkhas are soldiers are the creme de la creme of the British army, who still to this day, maintains a recruiting center outside Pokhara. The guys who ... Read more >
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NEPAL | Tuesday, 24 Apr 2007 | Views [870]
One would think the descent from ABC, to the place we finally call the finish line (Phedi), would be pleasingly downhill and relieving. Not the ABC trek. At points you plunge 1000M, only to go back up another 1500M. Today was especially brutal. The ... Read more >
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NEPAL | Monday, 23 Apr 2007 | Views [973]
It's not often one can say at 4:00 am, they have a breathtaking moment. Even harder to believe at negative 19 degrees celsius, after rising from a warm down sleeping bag, fully clothed in wool thermals, hiking pants, fleece and down jacket, to walk the ... Read more >
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NEPAL | Sunday, 22 Apr 2007 | Views [1068]
The guest house accommodations facilities get much less "accommodating" as the altitude goes above 2500M. It's been two days since we've even seen a shower. The "bathroom" consists of a cement block with a piece of tin covering u the sky. No faucet, ... Read more >
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NEPAL | Saturday, 21 Apr 2007 | Views [2301] | Comments [1]
After 16+ years in the corporate world, one is well versed in the skills of multi-tasking. Take for example my past employment environment which took the multi-tasking culture to the extreme. Your days filled with meetings, it was expected that you ... Read more >
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NEPAL | Friday, 20 Apr 2007 | Views [2196]
I scoffed at Darrin when he hunted relentlessly for the perfect walking stick in Pokhara, for the trek. Like we're professional trekkers or something, or scaling Everest and need a technical pole with shocks. We learned today, however, how invaluable ... Read more >
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NEPAL | Thursday, 19 Apr 2007 | Views [892]
Freezing cold at 5:00 am, we are on the trail heading a very steep incline, far too steep for this hour of the morning and we're gasping for oxygen. Headlamps strapped to the head, gloves and new woolen hat, we're ready for the short 1.5K hike to Poon ... Read more >
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NEPAL | Wednesday, 18 Apr 2007 | Views [957]
Our muscles were feeling the strain of the prior days 4 hours trek, and the past 4 months of little to no working out. Yes- those of you who know me as the work-out-aholic, it's true, the biggest obsession I've had to let go of on this trip (besides ... Read more >
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NEPAL | Tuesday, 17 Apr 2007 | Views [781]
After making our way through the Nepal Trekking Administrative Government bureaucracy, we finally have our permits in hand and are with our sherpa, driving up to Lumle, to begin our 10 day trekking expedition to Annapurna Base Camp (ABC). Our car chugs ... Read more >
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