Bhutan, 6.April.2026, Monday
Today continued a completely remarkable stay and experience. I hadn’t slept much, surprise!, and got up really early to walk the stupa. In the agenda, it had mentioned the idea that everyone would walk the stupa 108 times. I thought how cool to walk it early in the morning. I started around 5:45. It was…
Bhutan, 5.April.2026, Sunday
Chartered flight – Tandin’s first flight. Tandin is the only female in the troup of 12 who are helping with driving, luggage, etc. We had been using the king’s fleet of very nice SUV’s for just the return from Tiger’s Nest and then to the airport because our guys had driven 10 hours yesterday to…
Bhutan, 4.April.2026, Saturday
All day was a Tiger’s Nest day, you can see it at a distance from where we parked and then up closer. We hiked 8 miles that felt much longer because of the steep pitches and stairs/trails going up and down. Great to get real exercise. The weather was perfect and astonishingly, we had the…
Bhutan, 3.April.2026, Friday
Today in Bhutan. Even the airport is pretty and we’re so glad to come back here. Last time we were here, we flew in with the bride, coincidence, and saw the king get married. We’re standing in front of our tent (full bathroom) and we can see Tiger’s Nest from the tent. We’re climbing up…
Bangkok, 2.April.2026, Thursday
Our one adventure in Bangkok yesterday, Wat Pho, seeing the famous reclining Buddha. It was in the midst of in an incredible series of monuments to the earliest Kings of Thailand (Siam), temples and origins of medicine and massage. Could not remotely capture the enormity of the place, though I tried!
Greece, 3.Oct.2025, Friday
Meteora and Thermopylae The word Meteor means suspended in the sky. There used to be 24 monasteries on the top of these mountains. Now there are 6 and 2 of them are converted to convents. They didn’t have enough monks who wanted to live a secluded life, so the archbishop converted 2. The ascetics (word derived…
Greece, 2.Oct.2025, Thursday
Katarina our guide was great. I wrote a few notes in the van as we drove north towards Delphi and Meteora. We were driving into new territory to us and she said that 80% of Greece is covered by mountains and hills, Olympus is the highest at 10,000. Parnasus goes up to almost 8,000 feet…
Greece, 1.Oct.2025, Wednesday
Today’s breakfast didn’t go well at the hotel, delayed, missing pieces, not great. So Kaziah and I ran out to THE place in Chania for bougatsa – the traditional treat for any time of day of filo dough enclosing sweet cheese and sprinkled with sugar or a less sweet cheese and sprinkled with sugar and…
Greece, 30.Sep.2025, Tuesday
Today was a day mostly away from history and culture. We went out on a catamaran to see the gorgeous Greek water, a particular wish of Eli C’s. First, however, Rick and I got up in time to see the sunrise from the Venetian harbor of Chania. A man and his coffee cup 🙂 Eli…
Greece, 29.Sep.2025, Monday
Today was a travel day. We thought we were going to do some walking early, but it was a rainy day and instead, we all went to a cell phone case store the Eli C had found and we all got either cases, or the protector glass on the front, a watch band. Who knew…
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