2020 has set its own travel and tourism agenda. While we wait for flights, domestic and international, to resume we can staple the places we want to visit and revisit. For me it is Waterton and I was looking to fill in the blanks of my 2019 amble in the Park. WATERTON, ALBERTA: Place names entice visitors…
Lockdown re-posting of a breathtakingly panoromic journey to Sikkim in May 2017. Facebook has the uncanny knack of reviving memories of places one can visit multiple times, virtually. The 45 minute drive from Gangtok, capital of Sikkim, to Rumtek Monastery, 4900 ft above sea level and 24 km from Gangtok, is a natural delight of lush…
A flip thru my old posts….recreating magic. Something to be grateful for in the present unmagical settings. Kahlil Gibran words resonate when going through the post. ‘The appearance of things change according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves’. A…
As we bid adieu to a decade that has been tumultuous and pleasurable, in equal measure, I re-share a 2012 post. We, my friend-in-hike and me, remember it as one of the ‘best hikes’ when two 50-plus road walkers challenged themselves to reach for the rainbow. Seven years later, since moved out of Hong Kong,…
