The Potala Palace is AMAZING!!! It had been one of my favorite exotic, seemingly-so-far-away magazine pictures I’d ripped out and taped onto my wall back in Tucson to keep me motivated during our two years’ saving for this trip and it was even better in person than it was in that awesome photo. I’m not [...]

After a 45-hour train ride the same day we disembarked our awesome 5-day Yangtze River cruise (!!! Yikes what a day!!!!), we are HERE in TIBET!!! We even drove by the Potala Palace already, which we will be visiting tomorrow! Can’t write much now because due to the 12,000ft elevation it could pose a risk [...]