Posted in Nepal, Tibet on Jan 11th, 2008 No Comments »
I was a little surprised yesterday to receive an email requesting permission to use one of my photos for a “news” article! This request came via Flickr’s messaging system from another Flickr user claiming to represent a crowdsourced news organization that creates its stories from user generated content. I was a little skeptical [...]
Posted in Nepal on Oct 29th, 2007 1 Comment »
As quickly as we descended from Everest base camp (5200 meters) to Zhang Mu (2500 meters) in a day, we found ourselves nearly at sea level in about another day. The shock of crossing the border from China into Nepal was just about as drastic.
Our drive to Zhang Mu from Nyalam was exciting as [...]
Posted in China, India, Nepal, South Korea, Tibet on Oct 1st, 2007 No Comments »
Or close to it anyway… Ever since our 10 week excursion around Europe Kim and I have longed to take a more extended vacation. Not that we haven’t had a good time on our long weekends. We just want to explore the cultures in places we travel to in more depth and breadth than that [...]