I have been hanging out in the little lakeside town of Pokhara for a few days. Not much plan in place but it is a pretty place at the base of the Annapurna mountain range. It is also doesn’t cost much. No real reason to move on except for the lack of things to do beyond walking the shops on…
Category: Nepal
Getting down on the farm
It is a hard days work here. Manual labor from 8am to 4pm with two much needed 15 minute breaks and a very much anticipated hour for lunch. So much so that we don’t (at least not yet) even get tired of the daily plateful of gruel i.g. Dal Baht (lentils and rice) that is served up. It is really…
I got work to do
Back in civilization today, at least from an internet perspective. I found a coffee shop in town to get my internet chores done. Saturdays are our day off. Sadly, not for the Hindu worship service at the temple a couple of hundred feet from our front foor. Or maybe it’s a Bollywood music festival that kicked off at 5:30 this…
That’s really, really where I’m going to
Last winter, I hooked up (not the way kids today use the term) with a volunteer organization called “All Hands and Hearts” They do post disaster cleanup all over the world. I was thinking I would spend the winter doing hurricane cleanup work. Other than Hurricane Dorian, it was a pretty light year when it comes to storm damage. There…