Where’s Audrey? India!

India, land of gurus, bright colored sarees, architectural remnants of British colonials, maharajas, the Ganges, of Ghandi, Nehru and Mother Theresa, and three wheeled taxis has many gems hidden in its crowded, noisy cities that require the patience of a tortoise to pass through. My two weeks in the mostly Hindu country was filled with surprises. [...]

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Our Flags Fly!!!

  Somewhere off an undefined path between giant boulders at 17,040 feet in the Khumbu of Nepal, something special is hanging in the wind.  On that ridge in sight of the tallest mountain in the world, Mt. Everest, its base camp and the death-defying ice fall, somewhere out there are sixty prayer flags flying in the [...]

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Where’s Audrey?

Update: On Friday morning, Audrey made it to Everest Base Camp (17,040 ft.).  At the moment she’s on her way back down to civilization to recuperate. Her weekly dispatch will be up in a day or so.

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Elephants Make My Dreams

This is the third in a series of weekly dispatches especially for Commercial Appeal readers from Audrey Gonzalez, who is on a two-month trek in the Himalayan region of Nepal. (Her daily blog is at www.audreygonzalez.com.) Smoke sits on Kathmandu like a comfortable sofa. It pillows in it because there is no breeze to take it [...]

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Beauty and Beast

This is the second in a series of weekly dispatches especially for Commercial Appeal readers from Audrey Gonzalez, who is on a two-month trek in the Himalayan region of Nepal. (Her daily blog is at www.audreygonzalez.com.) It’s the contrast that surprises a trekker in the Annapurna Range of Nepal. On the one hand you are in the [...]

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