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Himalayas #6: Why Not?

One might wonder why it’s easier to bathe a cat than it is to enter Sikkim. I certainly did. But […]

May 6, 2016 10

Himalayas #5: Mugshot Bazaar

We got in the jeep and proceeded to Rangpo’s upper bazaar. Dustin dropped us off in front of a string […]

April 29, 2016 11

Himalayas #4: Border Crossing

“Wait here. I’ll be right back.” Nidup, our quick-smile guide with a Buddha belly, walked up to a bank-teller-like window […]

April 22, 2016 10

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The Home of My Heart

“Home is where the heart is.” It’s such a well-worn expression we hardly think of what it means anymore. Some say that Pliny the Elder was the first to utter these words nearly 2,000 years ago, and that when he did he said “hearth,” not “heart.” But no matter. The two are one in the […]

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The Birds

It all started when we came home after a trip out of town. The tranquil homestead we’d left two weeks ago was not the one we came back to. It had been transmogrified into a Hitchcock movie set. We stood by the Expedition, suitcases in hand, and watched as a squadron of swallows circled overhead, […]

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