We whirled by and I almost missed him.  I had seen him two weeks earlier in some other valley on some other stretch of road, just barely on the pavement.  The drive from Paro to Thimpu used to take 2.5 hours.  It was down a valley to a confluence and then up the other waterway, […]

We had finished dinner and the rain was setting in when I decided to put on my biking kit and head up the mountain pass.  The valley I was in, the Phobjikha Valley, at 10,000 feet, is a sanctuary for the Black neck crane, a medium-sized crane in Asia that breeds on the Tibetan Plateau […]

There is much discussion in the shell-shocked world of the travel ‘industry’. What’s lost, what’s coming back, what’s never to return. Goodbye to the city break? Good riddance mass tourism! Farewell fly-and-flop. Well, I don’t know the answer to all that, but I do know that there is one journey I currently cannot get out […]