I'm reading through Peter Matthisen's "The Snow Leopard" on my second visit to Nepal. It's a book I looked for for 5 months. I even bought one copy and lost in on the trip. Peter dicusses many elements during his 1973 trek in the Himilayas including Zen Buddhism, tranquility and detaching himself from his painful emotions. I have written a lot about dreams coming true during this trip, because it has given me such a vivid experience of that taking plac...

I was feeling totally scattered. Dread was taking over me. Being in a place, not speaking the language, everything was foreign. I felt like a failure. This trip I looked forward to for so long, caving in before it started. That was how I felt my last day in Hong Kong. I called my mom and said "I have to come home. I just can't do this." I sat at the computer in the local internet cafe and booked a flight to Kathmandu, Nepal for that evening. I landed a...