What to say about Tibet? It's a place beyond description. An ancient land of golden stupas, stilted monastaries, a place where people still live off the land, a spiritual place that seems to have existed before all others. At least that's what I thought Tibet was before I came. The reality is that it's a police controlled state. The Chinese now run every aspect of Tibet. Now I know what the Free Tibet protests have been trying to say for years. The Chinese have...

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...

Welcome to the start of my journey! I'm staying at the Garden Hostel in Hong Kong. I've just gotten over the jet lag. And I continue to learn that travel is all about the mindset. My thoughts are running, running continuously like the 24 hour chaos of Hong Kong. This is the gateway to Asia, everything is in Chinese and English which helps a lot. My first story came 2 days ago when I needed to use the toilet. I hadn't gone on the 26 hour trek to get here. ...