Major Case of the Green Eyed Monster! My gosh Russia!! Raymond you're literally travelling the globe, im so jealous! Hope ur keeping well and keep this updated, it shows me the outside world!!
Another Great Entry in Ray's Travel Book! Another wonderful entry in you travel journal. I can't tell you how much I look foreward to hearing about your adventures, you have such a gift with words. Keep on keepin' on cuz!
Awesome I was anxiously awaiting more on your time in Mongolia and I finally got it! Thanks for sharing this, what an amazing cultural experience. Great, great descriptive writing, I could really imagine what it was like. I was a little confused by the thing about something's volume exceeding containers whether you were consuming or not, at the end of the fourth paragraph, what did you mean there? Thanks for this again. Happy travels.
Well- travelled! Thanks so much for sharing your journey and your great photos Raymond - it is an absolute delight to know you are out there enjoying such a beautiful place and people!
Meg (from Nimbin, Tuntable Falls)
RAY!!!!! Hi Ray! Jackie shared your blog with me. You have a way with words that transfer the reader right into that completely crazy situation with you. Glad that everything turned out well. I think you and Perry will be better off without each other. Sounds like your travels have been amazing. So happy for you. Tomorrow is Sept 21st and they are predicting snow here! your keystone peeps miss you. Ken and I had a daughter 14 months ago - Satori Grace. Can't wait for you to meet her someday. Take care and add me to your email list!
Arohanui from katikati Hey Ray,
Almost feel like I was there, especially like the play on words! Love to hear what you were doing when Perry appeared.... I think.... Hope you are healing well, should be with all the TLC! Almost a year since you were here, time flies...
Looking forward to our invite to the Mongolian wedding!
Cheers Trudy
yea ray hope your doing well.. i hope your better without perry when the hell will we see you?( ps the next time we talk i might be a cop) we have a lot to catch up on
Wow! So glad you're okay! Sounds like you found a wonderful bunch of folk in Mongolia. Now, as to how this hernia happened... cow tipping in a foreign country could land you in a heap of trouble young man!
Much love from the Mann Clan,
Anne
Omg,so funny Hey Ray- so glad to hear you are doing well! I was laughing hysterically and had to share your story with my RN mum who thought I was going mad. It reminded me of getting medical treatment in Turkey for GID where they come at you with big needles and you're like edit, what's going on here?!
Best wishes for more adventure without Perry!
You named your hernia Perry?! An entertaining read. Loved 'I was greeted with an enema'! One of these days I'll get round to having a look round Mongolia..
shared experience Hey, man. Congrats on surviving that. I'm a fellow traveler, I'm 28 and have lived in Europe, East Africa, and Afghanistan and have traveled all around Mexico, Southern Africa, East Africa, Ethiopia, Yemen, India, Burma, South-East Asia, China and Central Asia. On my latest trip to Africa at the end of 2007, I was shot in an attempted robbery in Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya. I was near a regional referal hospital so I received excellent care, had major vascular surgery and was incapacitated for about 3 months. I share your experience and, like you, am nowhere near deterred from traveling further.
ice cream Blimey Ray you are having travel adventures!!!!!!!!!!!Glad to hear you are all mended & not in pain.Have to say that is one mean icecream.I have been opening weekends already, we are getting a good spring here to make up for the nasty winter.Could do with some sensible help tho....come on back and finish recuperating.....we have other food than mutton here as well as bigger icecreams!
Re: a river runs through it indeed ...one day I'll get myself to Montana, one day! Stunning pic my love.
Ray-Ray, what can I say now? I'm totally feeling the whole awkward-but-not-exactly-painful-but-ever-so-uncomfortable-and-oh-so-humiliating experience of that enema. Arequipa, Peru, 2003...and I didn't even know what an enema was back then! The kindly nurses performing the dirty deed had great fun while I was wimpering and cowering in the corner as they lubed up the old pipe. Not good times.
The jealousy is ever increasing, wish I could be hanging out with yaks in the middle of nowhere.
xxxx
in response... once again... wow... i'm feeling the hate and disappointment... so it goes. if you want to pass judgment from one blog... be my guest. i do have a total of 4 blogs on nepal if you must know. this is not my ONLY impression. it's my CITY impression, yes. but not my overall impression. FIRST let me say i NEVER said that the people were uneducated in nepal. secondly, if someone who leaves an "anonymous" commit wants to attack me, that doesn't say much for his/her own character. thirdly, if i was talking to "a god" he wasn't an impressive one. fourthly, YES! i will return to nepal! read my other blogs on nepal... and get back to me. have a nice day :)
I'm sorry hey Raymond... yr pics of Nepal are remarkably awesome. but i'm really sorry for u for nt being able to capture and see the most beautiful places in nepal. You missed almost 90% of it. Mt. everest base camp, pokhara, annapurna base camp, mustang, rara lake... so many stuffs.. takes a lifetime to explain.i really enjoyed my trip.it is like heaven on earth. i suggest u to think abt going there twice man!
take it easy !!!
Mr...... i dont want to scroll up and read your name. I think you are the most unlucky person who visited nepal because every people who visited nepal had praised its beauty and its people. May be you are not the kind of person who deserves the love and admiration. I know its a poor country, but it doesn't mean that people are not educated. May be there are many nepalis people studying in your university and don't forget to check their grades. For your information, kathmandu is a crowded city so its dirty, but if you had gone outside kathmandu and visited some major tourist destination place, the story would have been different.
I feel sorry for you because you met a man but you didn't realise that he was a god.
In response to the last commit... As Jim Carrey once uttered... "Never apologize for being honest." What's ironic is that most of what I wrote regarding the culture... the nose picking, the toilet paper, the environment... was taught to me in my Nepali cultural class taught by Nepalis. If YOU took offense or took things personally... that's not on me. It's on you. Nepal has been my most favorite destination thus far.
thanks for posting all the junks and dirts that i didnt even notice residing there. well for you raised and born in a developed country, u might find it weird and wacky. beauty lies in the beholder eyes i guess. no offense. after all it's a poor country . if it would have been rich and developed the story would have been different. Unfortunately, its not.
thanks for your comments on my Mongolia blogs. Hope you're enjoying your time there despite Perry! Great blog and fascinating pics from Nepal - that place is definitely on my wish list
Following you around the world I am so glad to hear from you via this travel blog and I second many others opinions when I say that your writing style and the way you bring us with you is amazing! So sorry to hear about Perry! Please take care and I think staying close by to you guardian angel/lanlord is a good idea til Perry decides to make his departure. How awesome to be able to share your medical training with them, I am sure you will find a way to break the language barrier. Take care cuz! Miss you!
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Major Case of the Green Eyed Monster!
My gosh Russia!! Raymond you're literally travelling the globe, im so jealous! Hope ur keeping well and keep this updated, it shows me the outside world!!