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Category: Asia 2017

This is for our Trip to Asia in 2017

Father’s Day in Tibet

June 18 Almost exactly a year ago, we were in Zion watching the Warriors lose game 7 in what our family has called “the worst Father’s Day ever!” This year,

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Go go Gyangtse 

June 17 Gyangtse was once consider Tibet’s third city (behind Lhasa and Shigatse) as it was a major trading center between Lhasa, Nepal, and India. Today tourists are mostly bypassing

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Leaving Lhasa – The long road to Gyangtse 

June 16 We knew that today would be a challenging travel day as we need to travel 280 km to Gyangtse and along the way we would reach a high

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Keeping DL on the DL

June 15 When Tibetians need to talk about the 14 (and current) Dalia Lama they often use the initials DL to keep their comments on the “down low” which is

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Let’s talk about monks baby!!

July 14, 2017 We mostly slept through the night (Tyler and tom were up by 6:30, the girls at 7:30). We enjoyed a classic buffet breakfast before meeting our guide

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Nothing is as easy as you hope

The day started off great. We made the 6am shuttle and but 6:20 we were in line #1 to check our bags. But not to Lhasa as we expected, only

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Once again!

Here we are in SFO heading to Shanghai, on our way to Lhasa, Tibet. more to follow! Our rough schedule is SFO- Tibet. 10 days in Tibet (June 13-23). Fly

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