Day: 262 Alright, today is my 28th birthday and I am celebrating in a the little town of Dege with excessive amounts of vodka mixed with high altitude! Should be a great combo… On another note, I have been averaging 1500 hits a day on this site lately, so I know you are all out [...]
Day: 260 After a day of driving across endless passes and plains we ended up in the tiny town of Manigango, which reminded me of something out of the wild west. A single street, not many people, and when my big white ass walked down it, it was a mixture of stares and “hello”s from [...]
Day: 259 Sometimes a rare day occurs where it all just seems to come together photographically for me; i.e. great skies, spectacular subjects, vultures, and (of course) me not being hungover or feeling like shit. Today happened to be one of those remarkable days. We visited a number of Tibetan monasteries, temples, a locals families [...]
Day: 258 More passes, more prayer flags, more headaches (although they are getting better!), more nomads, some prayer rocks, and snow!
Day: 257 The desolation of Tibet reminds me of Patagonia in many ways; very few people, lots of livestock – but then you hike a hundred feet, try breathing and realize you can’t. Pushing our way up to 4400 meters (14520ft.) today was hard on me, especially after I felt like I had just got [...]
Day: 256 It feels like a vice is on my brain. It’s only the first day at 3500 meters (11550ft) and my head feels like it is cracking and my body is struggling with what feels like a fever. We made it into Chabcha later in the afternoon after a full day of driving, and [...]
Day: 255 Nimrod looks over at us and all he says with a grin is “Jesus’ is bigger.” Proud once again that Israel has something better that the rest of the world. He was of course comparing the Dali Lama’s birthplace to Jesus’ (who supposedly has a big church). I did finally managed to get [...]
Day: 254 Last day in this boring city, I am as exhausted of it as you are. Tomorrow I am off on the first day of 13, across the Kham region here in China. Hopefully the nomads don’t have cameras to stalk me there.
Day: 253 When I said yesterday that most likely nothing would take place today, I was right. I spent most of the morning in some mix of being on the internet, eating, napping or reading (pretty much what I do at home). Finally 3pm came around and I set out across town to see if [...]
Day: 252 In my rush to get out of Xi’an, attempting to find something new to photograph, it never dawned on me that I’d be put in a place that could end up being excessively dull. Xining is exactly that, everything it has to offer is as a stop over to the wilds in the [...]
