Author name: ColdGecko

Feature image is of a simple stone inscribed with the words; “Everest Base Camp 2019”.  Shockingly, there is not grand sign set up at Base Camp explaining anything.  The reason is because the camp sits on a glacier and each year, the location shifts so a permanent sign would move over time.  Anyway, no matter,

Feature Image is one of the literally dozens of massively hight mountain peaks — largest in the world.  Prickass is constantly pointing out mountains and their heights — but it goes over my head — the names are so confusing.  Take the largest mountain in North America, Denali in Alaska and that is the ante

Feature Image is of some donkeys carrying up gas cylinders of kerosene — super heavy stuff.  Just one of the different means to transport goods up into the mountain world of the Himalayas.  The others?  Mostly Yak and Human beast of burden. Today we are ending our day in Pangbuche, a town of 106 families

Feature image is of a very large Buddhist Monk Monastery, really in the middle of nowhere, really.  For miles, nothing around that could distract any Monks or the like.  Nestled comfortably in the middle of the Himalayas. I really was not going to write about todays hike because it was really short but it did

Feature Image today is a take on our beloved (before the Kaepernick bullshit) Nike brand here in Nepal.  We call it “Fashion” shoes which just happen to have a similar swoosh.  Of course you can find everywhere “The North Fake” brand (also known in the west as The North Face) and others.  No brand police

Feature Image is of a real cool boulder that you will find all over Nepal during the treks which has some kind of script hand carved and then painted in black and white — generally surrounded by tablets of scripture hand carved as well — I just love it.  You should always go around the

Feature image is of  view outside my window in our 16 seater prop airplane from Kathmandu to Lukla, Nepal — traveling through the Himalayas — often the altitude of the plane is only a few hundred feet higher than the mountains surrounding our path.  Bumpy but fun ride — somehow I know that the pilot

Feature image is of the entrance to the buddhist Monkey Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal.  Its our first real look at the colorful flags that we expect to see everywhere in Nepal. It’s been real hard to get to my journal.   The last few days have been packed with either touring Dubai for a second

The feature image is from a toy store in The Dubai Mall, UAE.   Let me assure you, although I never really got into some serious intelligence on Dubai before coming. As I said, its against my best judgement for almost any trip I’ve ever taken — I just like to wing it. But that’s