All Entries in the "Travel Adventures" Category

Hands for Help - Final Thoughts

Dhal Bhat Days – vol13
9/15/08
While in Nepal I heard from my old students in India; they wished me a happy teacher day via email; it took me completely off guard, and shook me up a bit . It had been a year ago that I was there living in Delhi teaching my wonderful group of young [...]

Kathmandu – Second Time’s A Charm

Dhal Bhat Days – Vol 12
9/13/08
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After a refreshing, civilized stay in Pokhara for two nights, I arrived back in Kathmandu with a new outlook; it was no longer scary. I was reminded again of just how powerful time [...]

Kathmandu Photography

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I prefer window

Dhal Bhat Days – Vol 11
9/11/08
I thought I would be more excited about leaving Puma considering my living conditions for the last two weeks, but surprisingly, I wasn’t. In fact, it was a bittersweet. I was excited to get to some sort of civilization (yet I had started to question if civilization actually existed anywhere [...]

Flower Children

Dhal Bhat Days – Vol. 10
9/10/08
 
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Time is very powerful. In fact, I think it’s the most powerful thing in this universe. Time heals feelings, it causes us to forget, and with time; everything gets better. My time in Puma [...]

Indie Travel Podcast: Bathroom Adventure Travel

Here’s a link to my latest article on the Indie Travel Podcast.  It’s about my recent Nepal adventure and intestina foritude. 

Sherry Ott explores the idea of adventure travel for the digestive system. She recommends Nepal as the ultimate place for a journey for the gut.

Once you’ve read the article - browse around the site, it’s [...]

Do You Meat?

Dhal Bhat Days – vol. 9
9/9/08
During a break at school one afternoon, I noticed a big crowd in the village. I asked the children what was going on and they said “buffalo kill”. The village was slaughtering a buffalo and from my vantage point it looked like a lot of work as they were hacking [...]

School Days

Dhal Bhat Days – Vol. 8
9/8/08

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The whole reason I came to Nepal was to volunteer and teach. In some way I was trying to recapture my rewarding experience that I had in [...]

Barbot or Bust

Dhal Bhat Days Vol 7
9/5/08
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What the F have I done? Just when I was starting to settle in – I agreed to turn my little village world upside down again. I think [...]

At Last!

Today I taught the kids about body parts, and at recess I taught them hop scotch and we did a round of hokie pokie once I figure out what right and left was in Nepali. I personally think that the goofier I act the more the kids like me – they seem to get a [...]