Nepal Trip 2007: Bangkok, Day 1 5 November 2007 8:28 am
Posted by Tracy in : bangkok, nepal, travel , add a commentMy entire goal for this day in Bangkok is to see the floating market. Gondolas full of Thai food — need I say more? I am obsessed. There will probably be museums or some such, but really, I am in Thailand for the food. Bring the deliciousness, I say! Bring it on!
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This post was written and scheduled for automagical posting in the week before I left on this crazy adventure. I hope to write many more posts about the trip — you know, with more actual details and pictures and stuff — but for now this is all we’ve got while my intergoogle access is all kinds of sporadic during my travels from October 9 until November 6.
Nepal Trip 2007: Travel Day 3: Kathmandu-Bangkok 4 November 2007 8:26 am
Posted by Tracy in : nepal, travel , add a commentHere we go, back into the world of international air travel, and on to our surgical strike layover in Bangkok!
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This post was written and scheduled for automagical posting in the week before I left on this crazy adventure. I hope to write many more posts about the trip — you know, with more actual details and pictures and stuff — but for now this is all we’ve got while my intergoogle access is all kinds of sporadic during my travels from October 9 until November 6.
Nepal Trip 2007: Day 23: Last Day in Kathmandu 3 November 2007 9:25 am
Posted by Tracy in : friends, nepal, travel , 2 commentsHere’s one last day for us to enjoy Kathmandu before switching back into crazy globe-trotting mode. I’m thinking museums and whatever markets I can find. There is nothing like grocery shopping as a way to get a feel for a place, I tell you what. Don’t believe me? Check out A Trip to New World by the fabulous Chiara and then we’ll talk. And speaking of the fabulous Chiara, by this point in the trip I suspect I will be slightly insane with homesickness and culture shock and wanting to camp out in the hotel room just for the sheer joy of being in the same place for more than a day at a time, and also I will be missing all my friends very much. But I hear there’s internet in Kathmandu, which should help some with all that. Also I wonder if I will have sent postcards by now, but if I haven’t, here’s a note to myself: SEND EVERYBODY POSTCARDS, FOOL!
Hey hardcore kids: if all went according to the schedule laid out back on August 20, you’re back in Namche Bazaar, which means one of you might check your email and hear from me, in which case I want to hear from you.
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This post was written and scheduled for automagical posting in the week before I left on this crazy adventure. I hope to write many more posts about the trip — you know, with more actual details and pictures and stuff — but for now this is all we’ve got while my intergoogle access is all kinds of sporadic during my travels from October 9 until November 6.
Nepal Trip 2007: Day 22: Bhaktapur (day trip from Kathmandu) 2 November 2007 8:23 am
Posted by Tracy in : nepal, travel , add a commentBhaktapur is the third of Nepal’s three royal cities (the others, as mentioned before, are Kathmandu and Patan). As you can see on the following map, Bhaktapur is on the road between Kathmandu and points east: namely Tibet and China:
Like Kathmandu and Patan, it’s been around awhile and is chock-full of history. I accept!
Um, and the hardcore kids are in Thame today, down to just 3,820 meters. Here’s hoping they call or email us when they get back to Namche.
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This post was written and scheduled for automagical posting in the week before I left on this crazy adventure. I hope to write many more posts about the trip — you know, with more actual details and pictures and stuff — but for now this is all we’ve got while my intergoogle access is all kinds of sporadic during my travels from October 9 until November 6.
Nepal Trip 2007: Day 21: Lukla-Kathmandu, LIVE! 1 November 2007 12:20 am
Posted by Tracy in : friends, nepal, travel , 2 commentsDear friends,
First, the long story short: I am alive and well and in Kathmandu, and the trek was awesome and my brain is way too full to write much coherently. The very mushy part next: I have been carrying some of your names and addresses on paper in my pocket for most of this trip, but all of you have been in my very sappy little heart the whole time, so there. For now, I will leave you back with the regularly scheduled automagical post, because I can’t seem to get an internet cafe computer where I can upload even a very few pictures (dangit!) and in case those last few sentences didn’t make it abundantly clear, I am having a very hard time organizing my thoughts, let alone writing them down.
A short time that feels like a lifetime ago, I was thinking ahead to this very day when I wrote: (more…)
