Fifteen years ago today, I sat on the Great Wall of China and pondered the journey I was setting out upon — 61 weeks by land across Asia, from China to Turkey. To commemorate the anniversary, I post the following excerpt from my unpublished manuscript about the journey: Sitting alone on the Great Wall […]
Words Of A Silent Woman (Lhasa, Tibet)
Taking offense at the ticket price posted at the front entrance to the Potala Palace — it was 100 yuan (about $12), almost twice what I had paid to see Beijing’s Forbidden City — I turned to Plan B. Plan B was not very complicated. I would simply walk a circle around the palace and […]
View Through A Cracked Window Pane (Rongbuk Monastery, Tibet)
I had never given Mount Everest much thought before, but that was because until this afternoon I had never met her. Now, sitting on my bed at 9:00 p.m. and viewing the 29,029-foot mountain through a cracked window pane in Tibet, I knew some small part of my life had changed forever. I was in […]