My last post left me off in Pokara, which was like a beautiful resort town on the side of a lake. I spent a day there driving around to see the sights, and ended up meeting an Australian who had rented a motorbike for the day. We met up at the Gurka museum on the [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Kathmandu to Pokara
I had a longer post that I was going to put up before I left, but my computer just hates me and I couldn’t get it to transfer to my USB drive.I left Kathmandu on a chopper style bike, which puts my feet out in front of me and I sit in a reclining position. [...]
Holi, The Festival of Color
Kathmandu has been a unique experience, simply because I had no plans after Everest. While I was in South East Asia, I decided to head to Everest, but failed to think about what I would do for the weeks I had in Nepal afterwards. I have spent the past week hanging out with the German [...]
Everest Base Camp Trek: Part 3
Everest Base Camp. The name seems monumental. The entire trek has been aiming at this goal. Seven days of putting one foot in front of the other, breathing air that cannot even support plant life, and looking at the peak of Mount Everest in the distance. Six nights of sub-zero temperatures, dirty clothes, and no [...]
Comment on a post, Win a Photobook
Or the chance at one. One person who comments will receive a free , full color, professional photobook – from myself and blurb.com. Depending on how many people comment, there may even be two of them to give away. I started the comment contest a while ago, but since that post has faded away like [...]
Everest Base Camp Trek: Part 2
If you have not read Part 1 yet, you should probably do that first. That night, while we were bundled up around the stove in the old blankets all the lodges keep around, Chris came in telling us we needed to come outside right away to see something. The thought of leaving the warm room [...]
What's Up
Categories
- General (73)
- Preparation (16)
- Equipment (14)
- Bike California (27)
- Trek Asia (109)
- Transportation (4)
- Burningman (6)
- Thailand (34)
- Laos (19)
- Web (24)
- Cambodia (6)
- Vietnam (9)
- Nepal (12)
- Travel (11)
- Alaska (13)
- CouchSurfing (8)
- California (7)
- The Mission (2)
- The Future (7)
- Planet Earth (2)
- Costa Rica (1)
- Panama (1)
- Mexico (2)
Links
- Giramonda - Laura’s Blog, she is a great writer, and loves to travel.
- Hobolifestyle - My buddy Ken’s entrepreneurial hitchhiking blog. (Think smart hitchhiker with a laptop!)
- Kristina Sherk Photography - Fellow Elon student, now a photographer in DC
- Miss Mandie - The blog of an Aussie Traveler
- My CouchSurfing Profile
- Napping around the world - Walter’s blog about his sleepy travels.
- Tom Roberts - A Brit I met who also has a travel blog
Archives
- September 2010 (1)
- August 2010 (4)
- July 2010 (1)
- May 2010 (1)
- April 2010 (1)
- February 2010 (4)
- January 2010 (5)
- December 2009 (3)
- November 2009 (7)
- October 2009 (1)
- September 2009 (1)
- August 2009 (4)








