i arrived in kathmandu refreshed from southern india. after doing yoga for a week at a nutty ashram, i lounged for a bit in varkala and got to know some of the local people. i read some books, drank some chai and daydreamed of my hikes up the himalayas. i got to kathmandu and immediately loved it. the chaos of the city is tempered by the calm, warm ( Read more... )

hello friends, apologies for the free associative post below. electricity is optional where i am and i fear that i haven't more than a few minutes before the power goes out ( Read more... )

today was an exhausting day. i got up at 6 am and did some fort-seeing, sight seeing, get-puppets-and-hats-shoved-in-your-face-seeing. last night i saw a bollywood film in a crazy theater in jaipur! that was fun. there was a mix up this afternoon with my tuk tuk driver and it was a crazy mixup, he took me extremely far from where i wanted to go, ( Read more... )

it hasn't been traveling third class on overnight trains, getting a bad cold or having to run to the bathroom every so often for the last day or so no, the unremarkable event that's sent me almost over the edge in india is: A TRIP TO THE POST OFFICE! to the post office. i suppose there's something universally comforting about the fact that post ( Read more... )

i'm in jaisalmer, india. (sorry for the image sizes, i don't have the time or patience for the keyboard to fix!)


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in an admirals club. this time en route to india! i'm in heathrow where the food is just worse. in paris, the admirals club is filled with delicious cheeses and cocktail foods. in buenos aires (robert posted some pics ) there were at least varied if mediocre snacks. but in heathrow you just get pretzels, disgusting plastic-wrapped cakes and gherkin ( Read more... )

but i'm a woman and even though we're being marketed to by crazy cyrogenic companies, freezing eggs isn't the brightest idea. it's an insanely expensive, extremely invasive process and only 150 births have resulted from frozen eggs (not embryos) so far. and no long term studies have been done on the process and resulting offspring. it costs about ( Read more... )

i wish i could write more in this journal but internet connections have been few and far between (or rather fast internet connections ( Read more... )

here i am on ko muk, or ko mook, as it's sometimes spelled. it's a remote island off the west coast of thailand. save for a muslim fishing village, there are a few rather small, though very nice, beachside resorts. not that my tour group is staying in any of them. no, we're staying up on the hill in little huts ( Read more... )

i rode an elephant for 2 hours this morning. my elephant-mate, ryan, and i actually almost fell off. i tried to stop him by grabbing his shoulder but that didn't work too well - he is about 6 feet tall and perhaps 200 lbs and the only thing that kept us on the elephant was a sailor knot that i had personally tied! it was pretty silly and not that ( Read more... )