Category: Nepal
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2023: Year in Review
On a brisk evening in October 2022, I took a long run through my Denver neighborhood, listening to nothing more than my labored breathing and some wandering thoughts. Elizabeth Gilbert, the best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love, was fresh on my mind after I’d just devoured her book Big Magic—an insightful self-help text on harnessing…
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Morning in Kathmandu
It’s 2:44 a.m., and shifting my weight from shoulder to shoulder refuses to lull me back to sleep. Jet lag has shut the doors to my dreams, telling me it is time to stand and face the day. I’ve collected fragments of sleep en route to Kathmandu from Denver—dozing off somewhere over Greenland, and once…
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Back to the Himalayas
“Pinch me” moments do exist. Even after 20 years of serious traveling, select destinations still send a tidal wave of electricity pulsing through me. This week, I’ll fly to Dubai, then onwards to Nepal. And while returning to Nepal after a 13-year gap excites me, it’s the next stop on my trip that steals my…
Stirring Point 