I celebrated July 4th by visiting the American Club here in Kathmandu. Its normally by membership only (and no, being a citizen doesn’t mean “member”), but on the 4th they opened it up to all the US citizens.
Once you’re inside the compound, you really don’t feel like you’re in Nepal. You feel like [...]
That’s me and my oldest best friend, Nate. We were maybe nine years old? I just reconnected with him on Facebook today. Before today, I hadn’t seen or talked to him in five years or so. He now has two kids and is living back in the same house he grew [...]
I’m back in Dhaka after a ten hour car ride. I have not seen a bideshi (foreigner) since Friday morning. When that happens, I know I’m seeing the good stuff. That means I’m off the beaten path, seeing the true sides of the country and not what all the tourists see. [...]
Right now I’m traveling south into Bangladesh. I’m using my friends iPhone to post from the road. There is a thermometer in the car that keeps going up the further we go. It reads 34 celcius right now. Not sure in Fahrenheit, but it’s warm.
The driving is a lot like Honduras where the answer [...]
Today was a loooong day. I’m leaving for Bangladesh tomorrow to visit a friend, Shawn. I’ve been wanting to go for a few weeks, but this is still a last minute trip. I didn’t get my plane ticket or visa until today. I was hoping to do it yesterday, but well, [...]
Burgers, friends, and rain! What more can you want on a Memorial Day? I checked the weather, and it said it was supposed to rain in Cincy. Its been raining here pretty much all day, so its been nice and cool.
I went over to PJ and Lizzie’s this evening. We “grilled” [...]
Yesterday after church a guy came up to me and introduced himself to me as David. He had been traveling the world for the last five months. Europe, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and he was heading to India today. He just returned from Everest Base Camp and had climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro while [...]
Today my friend P.J. and I headed over to Swayambhu Stupa. It is also referred to as the “Monkey Temple” because of the monkeys that play and relax around the stupa. It sits atop a hill overlooking all the Kathmandu valley and has possibly been a religious site since around 460 A.D. [...]
When you live internationally, you tend to meet people from other nations (hince, international!). And when you get to know these people, you find out some very very interesting things about their culture, and more often they teach you some very very interesting things about your own culture. So I have decided to start [...]
Tonight was definitely a cultural experience. Seeing a French band playing an American form of music (jazz) in Nepal with Greek/English and Brazilian friends. I saw the band Ozma (not to be confused with the American rock band Ozma). These guys could jam! It was a great time. Afterward I [...]
