The villages that make up Upper Dharamsala are home to some amazing restaurants and cafes, and these are my favorites. Not only do these places serve beautiful, delicious, nourishing food in cozy, inviting spaces with friendly service, their prices will make your jaw drop in disbelief. You realize you’re absolutely spoiled rotten when you come to feel that $5 for a lunch is overpriced.
Read MoreIn Dharamsala, it was the clouds that first enchanted me.
The ocean of clouds that stretches out below the city as far as the eye can see, always moving, shifting, changing, forming an ethereal buffer between this mountaintop sanctuary city and the rest of the world. The clouds that occasionally ascend to envelop the streets of the town and its colorful buildings in a thick fog...
Read MoreA little after 8:30am the Dalai Lama entered, surrounded and supported by his security detail. As he walked slowly through the pathway among the seated crowds, stopping to smile at people, shake their hands, sometimes talk with them, something unexpected happened...
Read MoreHot, crowded, sprawling, throbbing with hordes of people and scooters in constant motion at all hours of the day: that is Saigon. As though intent on snatching the title of City Who Never Sleeps from New York, Vietnam’s largest city never rests...
Read MoreGina amazed me.
I met her via a phone call in November 2010. When I called Pacific Island Sea Planes, she was the person who answered. I was calling from somewhere on the Sunshine Coast of Australia, and I was in a quandary...
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