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January 30, 2005Mekong River: Six TeachingsGlenn and I had all the time in the world to make it onto the 10.30 a.m. boat to Luang Prabang in Laos on Thursday, January 27 - I don't know how it turned into a mad race to catch...Read this update January 26, 2005Chiang Saen: UnstuckThis is off the topic a bit, but I fucking hate Super Glue. I know what you're thinking - how can you hate Super Glue? Everybody needs Super Glue! It's super glue! Look how strong it is! You can stick...Read this update Tha Ton: Getting NorthGlenn and I were sure that we would take 10.30 a.m. bus from Pai on Monday, Jan. 24; what we were not sure of was where we we going to take it. The bus was heading for Chiang Mai, back...Read this update January 23, 2005Pai: Mmmm....PaiGlenn and I were heading out on our third night in the small town of Pai when a familiar voice appeared behind us. "Hey man, I thought I heard your voice." I turned around to see my buddy Alex from...Read this update January 22, 2005Chiang Mai: Switching TacticsGlenn and I were sitting in a restaurant in Chiang Mai that first day, checking out guide books for Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. Despite the enormity of options in those amazing places, we were having trouble deciding exactly what we...Read this update January 20, 2005Bangkok: Keep Out of Reach Of ChildrenI left Nepal on Sunday, January 16. I had been sleeping about 2-3 hours per night over the previous few nights, including the relatively sleepless night on the bloody sheets in the maternity ward in the Kathmandu Hospital. (If you...Read this update January 19, 2005Photos: Orphanage, Part 4Here we are, the last photos of the orphanage. These are just a few that did not fit into another category, but are some of my favorites from the time spent in Godawari. Again, by what I will assume to...Read this update January 18, 2005Photos: Orphanage, Part 3These are some photos of daily life in the orphanage, the second to last of the Godawari collection. Unfortunately, after posting all of these and writing about them, the entry was somehow deleted, and alas, I don't really have time...Read this update January 17, 2005Patan: Return to the Nepalese HospitalBefore I left on this round the world trip, I read several posts on the Lonely Planet Thorn Tree site about what to pack, what turned out to be useful and what did not. Far and away the most useful...Read this update January 15, 2005Matha Tirtha: Double HeaderNew volunteers come to Nepal at the beginning of every month, first landing in Bistachhap for their week-long training. We had thought that we had the next couple of months all set - two young women, Kate and Sam, had...Read this update January 13, 2005Patan: Nepalese HospitalsI was reading Snow White to some of the kids one evening, and they suddenly started chattering together as I was at the part describing Snow White herself. I couldn’t understand what they were saying, but did hear the word...Read this update January 10, 2005Photos, France: Chateau and Chemin de St. JacquesThese are the photos from France. It seems like a million years ago that I was there; in fact it was August and September. Those France entries are basically the first ones posted on this blog. Still, looking back on...Read this update January 09, 2005Godawari: Drinking JellyChris left a few days ago to fly back to Dublin, where he lives (he is German himself). We had the traditional leaving ceremony here at the orphanage: the two “didi’s” (young women who are responsible for cooking and washing...Read this update January 05, 2005Photos: BistachhapIf Judgement Day came tomorrow, and God was checking out his personal files on Conor Grennan, I have to believe that he would take the time to dig through all the bad stuff to come across three notable life achievements:...Read this update January 03, 2005Kathmandu: On the 45Everything is different in Nepal; that includes the calendar. After evening daal bhat the other night, we asked the kids when they had to go back to school (they are in the middle of a long holiday at the moment)....Read this update |
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