I’ve seen mountains. The Tetons and the Sawtooth. The Rockies and the Sierras. The Cascades and the Alps and the Andes. I’ve hiked them and I’ve camped in them and I’ve skied them and I’ve admired them from afar so it’s from an educated perspective that I tell you this: the Himalayas are the most…
Kathmandu is filthy. A fair statement and the only negative one I’ll make. Because the truth is: I quite like the place. I arrived at the Kathmandu airport after 10pm feeling a breezy air of nonchalance that can only be attributed to the fact that we’d been more or less ‘in transit’ for the preceding…
A few days ago I was boarding an enormous jet bound for Dubai. I stood in the jetway and admired the size of the engine, thinking about the rooms of my apartment that could fit inside of it, when it occurred to me that I’d forgotten a fundamental detail of my kitchen. “What are our…
Somewhere Seeking 