Day 25 - June 11, Lhasa Airport, @ 8:03 a.m. Beijing time (alt 3600 m.) At nine we have breakfast with Jinpa and Mr. Lee. I still have to pack a ski pole. Then everything will be zipped in. What a huge experience to say good-bye to. There were times it seemed it would never end but it did, as all things do. As I … [Read more...] about Favorite Memories
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Returning to Lhasa
June 10, Day 24, Shigatse, 9:14 a.m. Beijing time, Alt. 4000 m. We leave for Lhasa in about 20 minutes. That which seemed endless in the wide-open Aru Basin is now quickly ending. Even now before it is quite over the difficult experiences are turning into good memories--not that I won't enjoy a hot shower or won't … [Read more...] about Returning to Lhasa
The Shigatse Market
June 9, Friday, Day 23, 7:47 a.m. Beijing time, Shigatse, altitude 4000 m. Well, I just watched the cook leave, again. He left early on Wednesday to get back to Lhasa but we kept running into him. I think he must like traveling with Jinpa and Mr. Lee. He was really a character. Every morning he'd get up, do his daily … [Read more...] about The Shigatse Market
Re-Tracing Our Steps
June 8, 2006 Thursday, Day 22, 7:05 Beijing time, alt. 4000 meters Today we drove from Raza to Shigatse. There was much road work and gravel roads, except for the last 1/4 of the trip. We passed through rural areas today--lots of sheep, yak, goats and fields of barley. We re-traced our steps in some instances … [Read more...] about Re-Tracing Our Steps
Journeying
I have lost a few days in this return from the Chang Tang. But perhaps it's to be expected that the present will keep interfering. Yesterday I had to go on a picnic with friends to a patch of native Iowa prairie, that is still virgin prairie because it was designated as a cemetery in the middle of the nineteenth … [Read more...] about Journeying
Getting Back to Leaving the Chang Tang
Sometimes the present just plops itself down in all its going-to-the playground, holding-new-baby, joyful busy-ness - even during this journey into the past. But now we are home - and ready to leave the Chang Tang again. Day 20 - June 6 @ 5:30 p.m. Beijing time Well, this is the day we left the Chang Tang. We … [Read more...] about Getting Back to Leaving the Chang Tang
