Posts Tagged ‘Himalayas’

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Advice for Going Somewhere Different
As I continue to plow through my memories from Fiji and recount the tales, I always [...]

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A sight I would commit years, possibly decades, to seeing: the Himalayas.
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To seek out mental exhaustion
To be stranded with nothing but my mind
To be shoved completely out of my bubble and to let the one that covers me burst into tears on occasion
To see things I read about
To have a more enlightened mind and know, from experience, things never to be forgotten
To prove I can return [...]

BANG! POW! CRACK!
These are not the captions of a Marvel comic but the sounds that reverberated off the walls in my all-marble hotel. They were unexpected, oddly timed during the day, and seemingly arbitrary in the grand scheme of normal life in Darjeeling, India. I had no idea why the boys [...]

Alice Villa and her crew kicked me out with a smile and a tear. My beloved guesthouse was overbooked, and my sorry load needed to relocate for the remainder of my mountain adventure. It was a bittersweet parting with an establishment that saved me from extreme bowel distress, gave me food and impeccable shelter, and [...]

COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE
Smile and decline.
COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE CHAAAAAAAI
I wasn’t tired. Yes, I woke up at 3:30am and ran through the echoing city of Darjeeling in the bare cold of her film noir-esque pre-dawn. Yes, I jumped in a stranger’s jeep, gave him two dollars, and squashed against four [...]

I wrote these thoughts while on the “road”…
“A nervous dog pacing for a good, sunny, uncrowded spot to bathe and relax
A little boy snorting and scaring girls (including me) to impress his buddy between swings on the monkey bars
Old women with elephant wrinkles thumbing 109 prayer beads”

This “road” could have be anywhere. And then…
“School [...]

No blood was shed. The curfew worked. We strapped the chickens on board and waded in fresh puddles to the jeep. Over my dynamite Kashmiri bread breakfast earlier, I felt the boat sway and new voices bounce off the water. Mohamed crawled out of the flashy water taxi, the Parisian movie director a new arrival [...]

I may have made a truly horrifying decision, pushed by the approach of an immediate journey, the desire to part with the urban jungle; the work of three assuring and ambiguously generous salesmen along with the back-up by happy Western customers…my gosh, who knows why I flew to Kashmir.
It’s a thrill I normally find enchanting, [...]

Indiana is not a place where you need to worry about gripping the purse at your side or walking cautiously to your car at night with mase at the ready. This lack of high thrills and danger may be one reason why some say it’s a boring place to live. In fact, I [...]