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New Year’s Resolutions January 23, 2009

1. Eat fresh local fruit and vegetables when possible.
2. Get up early (6.30 is a good start)
3. Use lateral thinking
4. Involve people
5. Be sure to record the details.
6. Be polite, respectful and listen in the face of (one or all of, what I may consider to be) hysteria, stupidity, staring, begging, crowding, bad English etc. [...]

By Andy | Posted in Expedition Journal | Also tagged Bad English, Begging, Buying Local, Crowding, Fruit, Get the Details, Get Up Early, Hysteria, Insensitive, Involve People, Listening, Politeness, Positivity, Respect, Staring, Stupidity, Vegetables, Warm Feeling, Wild Camping | Comments

Headspin January 17, 2009

Macho, ego says: ‘what if you regret not continuing East?’
My heart says: ‘Go back to Georgia and then see what happens’
My realistic head says how? -
3 onward travel options:
1. Nepal, Tibet, China
2. Pakistan, Central Asia
3. Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Georgia
1. = Expensive, painful…
2. = Waiting until May to cross KHH and a whole bunch of [...]

By Andy | Posted in Expedition Journal | Also tagged Central Asia, China, Continuing East, Different Route, Ego, Expensive, Filming, Georgia, Going Back, Hysteria, India, Intrigue, Iran, KKH, Macho, Nepal, Onward Travel, Painful, Pakistan, Paranoia, Photography, Reversal, Sensible, Tibet, Turkey, Visas, Waiting | Comments

Today January 15, 2009

I intended to get up again at 5 this morning like I did yesterday. However, unfortunately today there was no mosquito to bite me and make me feel a bit strange and thus like getting up. Only my alarm clock which I was able to ignore twice. Eventually at 8 I naturally woke up. I [...]

By Andy | Posted in Expedition Journal | Also tagged Alarm Clock, Bombay, Central Asia, Coffee, Cold Water, Couchsurfing, Funds, Future Route Plans, Georgia, Getting Up, Ideas, Internet Cafe, Joy, Mosquitoes, Nepal, Post Office, Reassurance, Rickshaw, Ride Earth, Right Decisions, Shampoo, Shower, Soap, Tent, Tibet | Comments

Swimming with dolphins December 7, 2008

I’ve had a strange last week. The urge to use some of my newly rediscovered lateral thinking skills has been bubbling to the surface. I found Edward De Bono’s book Lateral Thinking in a book shop in Quetta and through reading it, I’ve found inspiration to find new challenging adventures and varied experiences.