From Nepal (our guest blogger in Nepal)
Arrived in Kathmandu yesterday. It’s the city that never sleeps…literally. Or at least they don’t seem to think that anyone else does! Pretty much any hour of the night you can hear horns honking, people talking, cat’s meowing, docile cows mooing and the dogs. Good Lord, the dogs. I’ve heard the “wild dogs of Thimpu†(in Bhutan) and they don’t hold a candle to these canines.
I guess I shouldn’t be too hard on the place; there is a window of about 3:45am till 4:10am where things seem to die down a bit. But hey, this the Kathmandu! The crossroads of the world. Where people come to find themselves, climb unattainable summits, and see a culture that just cannot be duplicated.
Without a doubt Nepal is a place to be treasured, savored, like the last sip of a great wine. It is a place that for all the changes going on in the world, manages to hold on to its magical charm.
We’re in Nepal hosting members of Airline Ambassadors to help start a community radio station, add new windows and doors for a long forgotten school deep in the Himalayas, visit some of the women that Lending Promise has given “micro-loans†so they can sustain their family, and work with the first female trekking school in Pokhara, run by the three sisters Lucky, Dikki and Nikki called…well…The Three Sisters Trekking School.
So over the next few weeks we are going to feast on a philanthropic smorgasborg as we course our way through some of the most amazing scenery in the world, sampling everything from Volunteering to Funding and a few Tibetan momo’s along the way. It should be a lot of fun.
This morning we are off to Pokhara, a beautiful lakeside town at the foot of majestic Manchapucharre. I will try to keep you updated as things progress. Until then we help in our own small way to keep the world on track by going Off-the-Rails.
Happy trails,
Dave
Note from Tim: I wrote about David on my Richest People Blog this week. He’ll will writing over the next two months about his travels in Nepal, Thailand, and Indonesia. It will be worth checking in just for this. We are HOPING to interview him “live’ next week during our blog party week to kick off Make a Difference day.
