Author Archives: Richard

It’s a two day drive from Leh to Srinigar. After stopping for the night in Kargil, we left at 4 AM for Srinigar because the one lane road through the pass is open in each direction every other day, and … Continue reading →

Sitting with the monks at the Tiksay monastery was great, though much different than I expected. The only Tibetan Buddhist service I’d ever been to was in San Francisco. It was all business. Everybody was reverent. This morning I had … Continue reading →

There’s a book called “A Cave in the Snow” by Vicki Macenzie.   She a woman who meditated for 12 years in a cave above Manali at 13,200 feet, near Keylong. It’s quite a story. I thought of her as … Continue reading →

Leh is the principle city in Ladakh, which is a little southwestern corner of the Tibetan plateau in Kashmir. It’s only a couple hundred kilometers, but takes two days to get there. I don’t know about internet connections there. Lonely … Continue reading →

I’ve been asked about the people I’ve seen and encountered. That’s such a big task, our cultures are so different. The cultures within the Indian culture are so different. People I’ve met… Well, let me start with my driver, Rakesh. … Continue reading →

Kalpa is the time it will take to lift the veil of ignorance from the world. Once every seven years, Maya flies over the sacred mountains of the Himalaya. With each pass, her veil brushes over the mountaintops. After one … Continue reading →

So far, for the most part, we’ve had a nice road trip. Most of the day before yesterday was spent fighting our way out of Delhi and the large cities north of it. The only long stop we made was … Continue reading →

Day by day, things are coming together. For months I’ve beeen struggling with learning how to take pictures with a digital camera, then with learning how to use the website my friend Renato set up for me. One of my … Continue reading →

Delhi wasn’t too bad, as seething megalopoli go, but I am so glad to be out of there. The things I think I’ll do there can wait. The reason I never make plans is I always change them about two … Continue reading →

Greetings. I got here last night after an uneventful 20 hours of flight time, and am starting to get my sea legs. It’s interesting how at first your safe zone is the area right around your hotel room. Then you … Continue reading →