I met up with Steve and Nara in Kathmandu to ring in 2009 with a great dinner at the Radisson and a reggae cover band (even though the temperature outside was definitely far from tropical). Kathmandu in January is usually pretty foggy and 2009 was no exception. Steve and I even tried to get out one morning on a Yeti Air flight to Lukla and explore the Mount Everest Base Camp region, but after...

Kathmandu is nice of course, but it's also nice to get outside the big city and check out the more relaxed village life that is much more the norm for daily life in Nepal. My friend Steve was in the Peace Corps in Nepal before the program was evacuated because of a bombing in 2004. While he was a volunteer he lived in a village called Dadhikot, located just outside Kathmandu and situated in the...