July 20 - 25, 2017 “Ok, ok…I can see you’re upset…but WHAT IS IT, MAN?” my voice now slightly elevated, reflecting the agitation from being woken up for the 5th time by this guy. This time, with the flash light from his iPhone beaming me in the eye, jolting me out of...
May 28 – June 9, 2017 Celebrate we will Because life is short but sweet for certain We're climbing two by two To be sure these days continue These things we cannot change “Two Step” by...
“You’re a vegetarian? You’re gonna starve,” nonchalantly quipped my friend Ellen. She is an American from Ohio who traveled through this region of Eastern Tibet for a year by bike in 2011 and has been calling Shanghai home ever since. I came across her blog in early...
May 25-27, 2017 “There is a trekking trail that goes through this region named Nyempo Jurtse. I don’t know if we can cycle it. Worst case, if the trail ends, we just push our bikes over the pass. It’s only about 1,000 vertical feet. We’ll need to pack food for 3...
May 10 - 23, 2017 “Into the great wide open Under them skies of blue Out in the great wide open A rebel without a clue” Tom Petty I have not seen a shower (or running water), a mirror, a hotel, or even a tree in nearly 2 weeks. I have subsisted almost entirely on...
May 7 – 9, 2017 "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson (…but sometimes that path or trail…is a yak track.)...
April 27 – May 6, 2017 Nobody said a word. Nobody complained and nobody hung their head. No profanity was uttered (at least audibly). We occasionally looked at one another, if only for a check in, but then solemnly just marched on. This is the beauty of being with...
April 19 – 26, 2017 “Tah-shi de-leeeeh!!!” belts out the Tibetan man on his motorcycle, lumbering down the broken, muddy road of a 15k ft mountain pass in the Amdo Region of Eastern Tibet, his wife and child clinging on precariously behind him. “Tah-shi...
April 11, 2017 It was 2 am. I had been riding around in not one but two different taxis for nearly 3 hours since I landed in Kunming. I just wanted to find my hotel. This, on the tail end of 2 days of the worst food poisoning in my life prior to leaving Nepal (and...
