Everest Base Camp

June 21 – Shegar to Everest and back Today is the big day! We awoke at 5am to be packed and in the lobby by 5:30 so we could make

Sakya to Shegar and the mystical conch shell

June 20  By now, you know the drill. Breakfast at 8:30, heading to a monastery by 9am.  As usual, we were the only western visitors amongst a throng of local

The rhythm of Tibetian travel

June 19 – Shigatse to Sayka We have settled into the Tibetian travel pattern – wake around 8am, head down for a Chinese focused buffet breakfast, pack up out stuff,

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

Asia here we come!

Follow our summer 2012 travels as we go to China and Bali here

Here’s our travel blog!

I kinda like this one. And not just because it is free. You can follow our trip here. Enjoy! TravelPod.com

Kramer Sabbatical Map

OK, the world is a good place

I was taking bart back from the mechanics and need to get pay my $1.50 for muni. Of course, I had a $1 a $5 and $240 in $20s. But

You asked for it. More PICTURES!!

Yes, that’s right folks. Springtime is behind us and summer is in full swing (the pile of fog outside my window is proof of that!). And Summertime means, time to

Boat People!!

So, I went to Tahiti and I ended up partying with the Boat people. If you want to have a good time, just go to the tropics with a bunch

First visit to Malaysia

So this friend of mine, a 26 year old first generation Mexican American from LA goes out of the country for the first time, to Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, etc….Here’s his