Category Archives: Travel

Journal Entry – November 11, 1995 – New Delhi

November 11, 2024 – 3:32 pm

The Aeroflot flight from Moscow must have arrived for crowds of badly-dressed Russians throng through the market buying cheap clothing to sell for a tidy profit back in the ex-Soviet Union. Finding large clothing isn’t easy, but the Indian merchants of the cheap tourist hotel district know their market. It is now apparent from the […]

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Langtang Glacier Trek 1991

November 11, 2024 – 9:36 am

Published Jun 14, 2023 Back in Kathmandu at the end of the Langtang trek. Before we reached the trailhead, Lance, Todd, his friend, and I bathed in a pool safe from the river rapids. We toweled off in the bright sunlight, glad to be clean for the first time in over a week. My towel […]

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May 12, 1990 – Langtang Trek, Nepal – 1990 – Journal Entry

November 10, 2024 – 2:03 pm

Published May 30, 2023 The passing clouds obscure the 6000-meter snow-tipped peaks towering over the Langtang Valley, but the 5000-meter ragged summits cut through the mist with each parting of the clouds. The tea house serves a good cup of yak butter tea. I’m not liking the salty brew, but it does provide warmth and […]

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May 12 Rinche – Lama Hotel – Langtang – Journal Entry

November 10, 2024 – 1:04 pm

Day two and we dined with the Sherpa porters, cooks and guides by a campfire. There is no electricity in this valley other than our flashlights and my Sony World Band radio.I turn it on getting a scratchy Nepali station playing local music sounding much like Indian music. The Sherpa are happy and break out […]

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May 9 1990 – Kathmandu – Nepal – Journal Entry

November 10, 2024 – 11:57 am

Published on May 25, 2023 Kathmandu is a magical city filled with pilgrims traveling to the city’s holy shrines and temples of the pantheon of Asian religions. I haven’t seen a single church and with good reason. Jesus might have traveled to Kashmir after his crucifixition, but no one here worships him here. Certainly not […]

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