This has been the longest year of my life. I realize this entirely now upon touching down in India. For while I feel this country to be at least be a few emotional Christmas’…
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re-defining home
(The following question was posed to me by the editor of TravelBlogs.com) What does home mean to you after traveling for so long? When I first left the country, I was an angry girl; ashamed…
sponsor shout out: Jetboil
We had a number of amazing sponsors who spiked our gear with the best equipment in the field. Here’s my testimonial for Jetboil, who equipped us with our entire kitchen for our month in the…
pilgrimage of poem & music (an intimidating book to open)
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…
dealing with loneliness on the road…
Eric, the editor of TravelBlogs.com recently posed the following prompt to a group of travel bloggers. If you’re interested, you can find the other answers in his article on, “Dealing with Loneliness on the Road.”…
mixed bag of future, past & present
Well, I’ve finally got myself that cup of coffee and computer time that I’ve been craving. As well as a messy pile of stained notes and unorganized photos documenting my day-by-day account of the adventures…
citizen of the bardo
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… Fresh protests erupt in…
a stone on simmer
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)…
arranged love marriage
IMG_5263, originally uploaded by seekingsol. 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…
interview with a village family
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…