the eagles won!!!

by one point!
and i dont really care for football!
[or overuse of exclamation marks. sorry.]

homecoming!

day 70 of my trip. the countdown to home is less than 1 week.  
however, my trip has been short compared to the journeys of many i have met on the way - 6 months, 12 months, 3 years… especially in india and nepal, there are people who arrive and dont go because it is so chilled [...]

sunrise over the himalayas = overrated

especially when you have to wake at 4am to trek up a hill to see it, and even then not be guaranteed a ‘full sunrise’ due to cloudcover.
4am. wtf?!!!

bathing with elephants

has to be my highlight of nepal, and given that ive 4 days to go i dont think it will be surpasssed by anything.
bathing with elephants entailed:  jumping on the back of an elephant in the river, getting thrown off when s/he rolled over or tried to stand up, getting back on, and so on [...]

nurses convention

the membership of my Imaginitive Traveller Images of Nepal tour consists of 3 middle aged american chicks - all retired, a young australian couple from sydney, and a welsh dude. plus me and my mother.
of the 8 of us, 5 are/were nurses [i ER, 1 operating theatre, 1 psychiatric, 2 general], so rest assured i [...]

no bottle opener. WTF?!!

i walked into the kathmandu prince hotel and immediately noticed the middle aged american woman with big tits [to differentiate her from the other 2 in our tour group] slumped over the reception desk, surrounded by the 2 helpless looking hotel staff.  she had a bottle of jacobs creek red in her hand.
my initial reaction [...]

an all WA football grand final?!

just want to add - after the recent tragic deaths of our national heroes steve irwen [?]and that brock motor sports guy, an eagles/dockers grand final is something good to return home to. rock on, WA.
 thanks to those keeping me informed of these vital pieces of information.

welcome to the hotel california

i thought that i was quite indifferent to seeing mt everest. its a big mother fucker mountain..so what?!
on my way back to nepal, the everest base camp on the tibetan side was just a short detour off the friendship highway, so i thought ‘why the hell not?!’
i am quite convinced now that everest is a [...]

17 days in tibet

CIAO! sorry about the absence - no such luck about kidnapping or being left for dead halfway up mt everest. tibet [china] didnt think this site was ‘appropriate’ so i wasnt able to access it during the last few wks.
now back in kathmandu, i am free to dribble again. tibet is/was not an easy place [...]