Along Druk Path

Bhutan August, 2004 “What are you doing in the tree?” I asked. “I am going to stay in the forest” answered the little boy, some 5 meters off the ground, sitting on one of the branches above my tent. “Aren’t you going home?” “No” came the decisive reply. “Why not?” “My mother will beat me” … More Along Druk Path

Up the Wall

Huang Hua, China June 4, 2002 Despite the dire forebodings of Jing, back at the guesthouse, I had made it to the Dong Zhi Men bus station successfully on bus number 416 and now I had to find the 916. I sputtered out the Chinese phrase I had been told to say, sounding – at … More Up the Wall