Great news! Today Thomas arrived and so did Amy’s bags; both had long circuitous routes to Hyderabad. Thomas started in Santa Fe and traveled via Albuquerque, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Dhaka, Kathmandu and Delhi before arriving in Hyderabad. ...
Here we are again at the beginning of another workshop. Days have passed and thousands of miles have been traveled, and (most) of the preamble have arrived in Hyderabad, India for this episode. As of this morning, we...
I’m gonna make this short…because we are exhausted. A 14-hour drive, a rural border crossing with a couple of minor hitches, and 30 minutes in the Tunnel of Death (seriously, Google it). Not bad for a “day off.” We...
This morning, Wendy gave a presentation on her photo essay on eye surgeons in Nepal, and then we had a guest speaker come in to tell us about the programs put on by the Bhutan Nun’s Foundation. She and...
This morning, with the clouds low in the valley, and the mists rising through the pines from the ruddy hillside, the team sat for our first breakfast back in Bhutan. This year, we will be hosting the 21 students...
Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Nashville and Rochester. Our crew traveled halfway around the northern hemisphere this time to meet in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan. We arrived at 4 a.m. and had time for a 1.5 hour nap at...
We made it safely to Tajikistan and are busy preparing to commence the workshop in Khorog tomorrow! We took this photo while traveling along the Pamir Highway from Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan where we landed a few days...
As we awoke Saturday morning, the fog filled the valley and from the balcony of the La Sombra to the point where you could barely discern the trees at the edge of the property. The bird singing in the...
We loaded into a giant white bus and set out north from Managua toward the mountains, Macizos Peñas Blancas. Multi-storied complexes of malls and food courts shrank into single-story concrete and tin-roofed shops, and then into small wooden kiosks...
Yesterday, as we were touring around Thimpu shooting and sightseeing, Sakas asked our guide Kalzang if it ever snows in town. Kalzang responded that it’s normal for there to be snow on the mountain tops, but it’s unusual to...