INDIA | Wednesday, 25 Mar 2009 | Views [1258] | Comments [1]
For the third time in a year, I’m in India. I feel ourselves in
something of a desperate love affair; one, and just as often the other,
on her knees, begging the other to come back, just go, or not leave.
Four months ago, in a dizzy spell in Delhi, ... Read more >
NEPAL | Friday, 7 Nov 2008 | Views [1601]
A shortage of ponies keeps us, with bags packed and stacked at the
doorway, hesitantly stationed in the tiny trail-head town of Jomsom .
Today, Sangeetha and I follow our whim through the the alleys and to the corners of this little sand ... Read more >
INDIA | Saturday, 25 Oct 2008 | Views [1379] | Comments [1]
What does home mean to you after traveling for so long?
When I first left the country, I was an angry girl; ashamed of my
country, annoyed with American tradition & culture, disregarding of
my family history, disappointed with my education, ... Read more >
NEPAL | Wednesday, 15 Oct 2008 | Views [2264]
We wake and jostle our belongings together in haste; today, as we have long planned, we will begin our journey into the Dolpa.
Sacks stuffed, teeth brushed, packs on back, we descend the steep
incline of wooden stairs and emerge on the lower deck ... Read more >
NEPAL | Wednesday, 1 Oct 2008 | Photo Gallery
on the on edge of the Tibetan plateau, deep in the Himalayas of rural Nepal
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NEPAL | Wednesday, 1 Oct 2008 | Views [4497]
Opening the book on our adventures in the Dolpa (rural Nepal) is as
intimidating as the 17,000 foot passes we crossed to get there. Just
look at a single page of my notes!
So instead of hesitating any longer, I’m just going to open and type. ... Read more >
THAILAND | Wednesday, 16 Jul 2008 | Views [1478]
I think it was this photo. ... that made me and my girlfriend change our plans, mid-sentence from... "Let's just go. We've been planning this trip to Kashmir for months!" to... "Hum. Maybe not." And suddenly I find myself ... Read more >
Tags: kashmir
INDIA | Monday, 21 Apr 2008 | Views [1384]
Handing me back the piece of paper with the single word on it, my student says, "Um. I'm not sure I know what this is…" Part
of the mission of my work (in experiential education) is that of
fostering eleven (what we call) "core values"... Read more >
INDIA | Wednesday, 9 Apr 2008 | Views [5868] | Comments [1]
One of my students recently quipped, "...arranged marriages give me faith in marriage." And
as quickly as I agreed with her, I wondered, "what a once-foreign idea
with which I have so naturally nodded my head in agreement!" It's
one ... Read more >
INDIA | Tuesday, 25 Mar 2008 | Views [2356] | Comments [1]
"Well. You know what Buddhists would say? You must have some karmic
connection that keeps bringing you back..." � the woman checking me
into the Roots Institute of Wisdom Buddhist Retreat Center , Bodhgaya (Bihar), India And
even I have ... Read more >
INDIA | Tuesday, 11 Mar 2008 | Views [6935]
India is the home of almost 1/6th of the world population; 1.13 billion
people and around 80% of this population lives in rural areas. Last
weekend I spent a long weekend in a small, rural village on the
outskirts of Varanasi of which I've visited ... Read more >
Tags: Family
INDIA | Tuesday, 19 Feb 2008 | Views [1498]
For about six months I've been feeling something shifting inside of me.
I can only compare the sensation to being made of sand; where every
move I make shifts a million grains into a new order that fills the
holes and packs down to take the shape of ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
INDIA | Friday, 1 Feb 2008 | Views [2241]
A
friend recently told me over tea, "So I'd decided along with everyone
else to stop researching cameras and computers and just buy whatever
you do..." Both off and online, I get a lot of questions on my
camera kit (as it has evolved significantly ... Read more >
Tags: cameras, packing & gadgets
INDIA | Tuesday, 29 Jan 2008 | Views [1480]
(This is an excerpt from a personal
journal entry from the first week when I arrived in India. I sometimes
cringe and curse at the weird way my sentences wrap around each other
in odd-measured rhyme when I get writing. So know that it's
unintentional, ... Read more >
Tags: People
INDIA | Sunday, 13 Jan 2008 | Views [1412]
I recently answered the following questions from a Portuguese journalist and figured to recycle the content. The answers are short because the last time I had something published, the editor had no mercy with the scissors and cut my tresses of words to ... Read more >
Tags: Philosophy of travel
INDIA | Saturday, 5 Jan 2008 | Views [1431]
For most Westerners, it's unfathomable for a major city to function
without 24-hour electricity. Yet like the monsoon rains on their
mission to Ganga-ji (respected river), the 1.3 million people who live
here in Varanasi somehow always manage to ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
INDIA | Tuesday, 20 Nov 2007 | Views [1730]
At this very minute, scouts from every major city in India are making their way to the site of the recent natural disaster in Bangladesh .
There, they will pick through the rubble of the dead and displaced, in
order to find, lure, trap and/or steal ... Read more >
Tags: History & Politics
INDIA | Tuesday, 13 Nov 2007 | Views [1312] | Comments [2]
(Buddhism was the first Eastern religion I encountered on my travels and when reincarnation was explained to me, it changed my world in the way it did mapmakers when they were told the earth was round. But it did not so much, “explain” as it, “told me ... Read more >
Tags: Family
INDIA | Sunday, 21 Oct 2007 | Views [1485]
This is not my first cup of chai with Agam-ji. While the kinship I feel for him might well transcend centuries, Agam has already become a revered character in one of my many lifetimes within this one; I studied the art of silversmith under his mentorship, ... Read more >
Tags: Friends
INDIA | Wednesday, 17 Oct 2007 | Views [2882]
Why India? I find the inquiry funny for the fact that the question is, for others, as obscurely obvious as the answer, for me. But I was asked this question three times this week and, only just, woke to the idea that perhaps it was not a rhetorical ... Read more >
Tags: Philosophy of travel
INDIA | Sunday, 7 Oct 2007 | Photo Gallery
A new India adventure begins...
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INDIA | Sunday, 7 Oct 2007 | Views [1657]
The Himalayas are a holy place. For a moment, I forgot this. And remembered them only, as big mountains. But slowly crawling along the valleys and ridges of the Earth’s crust had the effect of a pumice stone on my soul. For 15 days I walked. And for ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
PERU | Monday, 27 Aug 2007 | Views [2826] | Comments [1]
Before we leave the
village
of
Quelqanqa
, we take one last tour of the sites laying (quite physical) tribute to
the successes of our manual labor. We walk down the valley to visit the
new stone bridge and ... Read more >
Tags: footprints, peru, philosophy of travel
PERU | Monday, 27 Aug 2007 | Views [3260]
Our bridge is only a few hundred hauled-stones away
from completion when I wander up the hill following a rumor that the
men of the Quelqanqa are constructing a traditional "earth oven" or
pachamanca in which the feast, celebrating ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
PERU | Wednesday, 22 Aug 2007 | Views [1665]
After a night of tossing through below-freezing temperatures, the sun finally rises. And as I peer out of my tent to watch it chase away the shadows, melt the frost and fill our valley with fuzzy light and flushing warmth – I clearly understand, and ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
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