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One Year Later

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October 3rd 2012
As of today, I’ve been on the road for one year. I think it’s only appropriate that I’ll be spending it on a bus crossing back into India. It feels like just the other day that I was at the San Jose airport, being denied my boarding pass to Turkey for not having an exit ticket. Yet, I realized that I’d been away for a long time while I was in the ladies restroom last week, waiting to use t ... read more

Asia » Nepal » Kathmandu » Boudhanath

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In 1951, the Nepalese monarch ended the century-old system of rule by hereditary premiers and instituted a cabinet system of government. Reforms in 1990 established a multiparty democracy within the framework of a constitutional monarchy. A Maoist in... ... read more