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Nepal Trek – Upper Mustang – Part II

Day 2: Kagbeni – Chele These treks are getting tougher. Longer day along the Kali Gandaki with more climbs and a nice stop for a bowl of garlic soup for lunch. Took a nap there in a somewhat reclined chair with a kitty sleeping on my belly. Felt a bit like heaven to me, and […]

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Update From Nepal

Just the other day I was telling a friend that I need to push past my comfort zone and head out on a trek. What I loved about that statement was that it implied that Kathmandu has somehow become within my comfort zone. This city in all its chaos and cacophony has somehow become familiar […]

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Namaste – Arriving in Nepal

Just landed in Nepal for a bit of a summer’s end adventure. This type of travel, the travel away from comfort, security and familiarity towards the discomfort (and of course wonder) of a completely unknown place can be very challenging on an inner level but also very rewarding. In reading back on my writings from […]

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Leaving the Homeland

It’s time for me to leave my home again.  As many of you know, I rent my home out often as a vacation rental and since summer is peak season (folks from the ungodly hot Sacramento Valley love coming over to the coast to chill in the summer), for the past couple of years I’ve […]

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OCD – Opportune Cleansing and Dismantlement?

I’m not fully sure what is happening lately, but while I was wiping out my freezer after having cleared it out and purged lots of old stuff, I had to start questioning whether I was undergoing a mid-life OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) crisis or whether my behavior was more reflective of the inner changes that […]

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Resistance

It’s time for me to travel some again and I’m feeling a lot of resistance coming up so I want to explore here what that is about for me. I’m renting my house out starting July 2nd to various groups of vacationers for the summer so I need to vacate the house and move on […]

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“The Heart Knows Better Than The Mind”

So I’m still in India. Somehow I decided not to return to the states. It was an incredibly difficult decision for me: my body and soul were tired and wanted to go home to comfort and nurturance, a voice within me kept saying, “I just want to go home,” 4 of 5 coin flips were […]