We both chose the fish and chips.
We took dessert home with us.
Then across the driveway to our favorite coffee shop….
Remember; No Matter Where You Go, There You Are!
Travels and Observations of the Kathmandu Gurus
We both chose the fish and chips.
We took dessert home with us.
Then across the driveway to our favorite coffee shop….
This morning the weather was wonderful, so I was inspired to take a walk to school. I’ll let the reader judge the interest value of the pictures. Hopefully next year’s photos will be far more exotic.
Moving from Germany to China, we scoured Foyle’s bookstore in London and found the classic guidebook Nagel’s Encyclopedia Guide of China. We found some National Geographic back issues in California that eventually led us down the Yangtze and to the sky burial rock in Lhasa. There were no traveler’s guides to China back in 1983.
When we left Malaysia we found lots of guide books in Hong Kong, but most memorable were the books of Paul Therox: The Consul’s File and The Great Railway Bazaar.
Again guide books were hard to find for Saudi Arabia, but the book “Princess” had just come out. Scary stuff. Living there for four years didn’t change that impression of what we called “the magic kingdom.”
We interview in the UAE for our jobs here. At that time we picked up the book “From Rags to Riches” which chronicled the early growth of Abu Dhabi, but also foreshadowed the growth we have witnessed.
Moving to Kathmandu
Everest and the Toenail – Like us, empty nesters living abroad. The post about the flight from the US, leaving the kids, hit home.
Bill the Pincushion was a practice character in “Minotaur”, a game created for the Mac by Jason Jones. No matter how hard you hit him, he would just keep moving through the maze. Bill the Pincushion takes on a new meaning with the list of shots (and pills) required for our new home in Kathmandu: Td/Tdap, MMR, Polio, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis A, Typhoid, TyphimVi, Rabies, and Japanese encephalitis. Those are required. Meningitis is recommended.