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What to do in Kathmandu
- Aperture: f/4
- ISO: 500
- Shutter Speed: 1/3200 s
- Focal Length: 10mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 7D
Just as Him couldn’t stop himself from humming the Lord of the Rings theme during the New Zealand portion of our trip, I found it nearly impossible to expel Bob Seger’s “Katmandu” from my head during our stay in the Nepali capital. “K-k-k-k-k KAT-MAN-DU! I think that’s where I’m going to,” I sang to myself…
What are you waiting for? GO NOW!
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- ISO: 400
- Shutter Speed: 1/400 s
- Focal Length: 14mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 7D
Exactly one year ago today, my husband and I quit our jobs to travel the world. Over the course of six months, we circumnavigated the globe, passing through, in order, Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Japan, India, Nepal, Jordan, Israel, Greece and Turkey. The trip, as chronicled in this blog (still…
When the mule pushed me off the mountain
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- ISO: 400
- Shutter Speed: 1/250 s
- Focal Length: 10mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 7D
It was our last day on the Everest Base Camp trek, just a few hours hike outside Lukla, when the mule pushed me off the mountain. I remember Ray LaMontagne’s song, “Beg, Steal or Borrow” was playing on my iPod at the time because it was hearing the lyrics again, after the crashing and crunching…
Into thick air
- Aperture: f/13
- ISO: 800
- Shutter Speed: 1/1000 s
- Focal Length: 10mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 7D
Day 10 – April 7, 2013 – Pheriche to Namche Bazaar Hiking from Pheriche back to Namche Bazaar proved a grueling task – almost 8 hours of path pounding, including an uphill section that took about 45 minutes to climb. The sky was hazy, the trail ahead fuzzily obscured. It seemed every ridge we rounded…
