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As we rode in the cool morning shade of a narrow coastal road north of Alleppey, I was reminded of our riding the narrow lanes of the Mekong Delta during our Shangri La trip. This time we were riding along …
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“This is grim,” I thought. We were taking shelter from the steady rain under a roadside lean-to tarp shelter and I had just added my last precious few layers of clothing, save one. Bob had nothing left to put on. …
A plaintive singing drifted through the camp; similar to the Buddhist prayer songs we had heard while staying with a family in Kham, the easternmost cultural kingdom of Tibet, on our In Search of Shangri-La journey. The singing was strangely …
We rode out of Leh, a long downhill we would pay for later, with growing excitement and more than a little trepidation. Facing us were four passes, one of them the second highest in the world, several days between 15,000 …