World Chump - Wanderlust

Aside from the powerful mountains beckoning from outside the plane window, the traveler to Nepal is greeted by green, green grass. Mountains and grass always make for an ideal combination. Growing up in Germany, we lived near the mountains for a while, and I still remember the grass...

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These are more rambling, babbling thoughts I have collected after three months in Nepal: - I have never seen more ...

Cities can be a wonderful thing. It seems there is little that appeals more to the senses than a well-designed ...

Our son wakes up before anybody else does, at almost seven sharp. We need to get ready by nine for another, much ...

We find out very early that the Elephant Polo World Cup won’t happen for us. We are about forty kilometers away from ...

There’s a movie I have in my DVD collection titled ‘The Wind That Shakes The Barley’, the story of a guerrilla column ...

I guess I was overdue for one of these, a bhand, also known as a protest staged by any given group for any given ...

Before Nepal, I had never seen people carry an umbrella over their heads without the rain prompting them to. Until ...

What could possibly be the worst event that could happen to a child in the United States? Abuse by the family? Losing ...

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated” - Mahatma Ghandi ...

Funny how it goes when you’ve just moved to a new place. The first thing you will inspect by default is traffic. You ...

People will really label me a goob after they read this, if they haven’t already. Yesterday I wore black. This was not ...

I don’t mean to brag, but I have a high threshold for pain. It doesn’t come from cutting myself as a youth, nor from ...

If there is one person (or group of people), dead or alive, that people in the third world could lynch (again), who do ...

Since the beginning of time, we have always dreamed of a perfect world. This has been well documented in song and ...

I'd just had one of my more productive weekends behind me. I constructed and oversaw the construction of a brick ...

While human beings have proven to have different cultures, religions, and animals they throw into the pot, it is ...

Even funnier than the Kathmandu Marathon is the perpetual human race for the Golden Halo, which also goes through ...

This past weekend was the second running of the Kathmandu International Marathon. The deadline for registering was one ...