I had been hoping for months from back home in Tucson for the chance to see the Dalai Lama in person. But I’d read in my guidebook that he no longer gave audiences, and there was no mention of any other way to see him. So I had written in the stop in Mcleod, in [...]

G ‘s take: The next day when we awoke, my headache had not abated and now to further compound things, the occasion for which I had initially stashed the 10 emergency Advil had –of course- arrived. I was in a lot of pain and, thanks to 15 years of experience, knew I was rushing headlong [...]

As the dust-filled local’s bus finally shuddered to a definitive stop, with relief and exhaustion we half-clambered,half-stumbled our way down the steep steps and out the door into the dark night. We were in the middle of a large, lightless bus park save for one or two lone poles that gave off just enough of [...]

So we all high-tailed it off that bus as fast as we could, eager to get solid ground beneath us and try to get our stomachs back in order and come to grips with the creeping, incessant headaches that were wracking a number of our skulls. Ray and I were about to pull up a [...]

So. Let’s talk about the trip from Manali-Leh. This baby was epic. This baby was more epic than Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and the Iliad and The Odyssey combined. It was epicer, if you will. And do you know what epicer spelled backwards is? That’s right, recipe. As in recipe for disaster. As [...]