Howard and Fiona - Travelling Together "Why should students have all the fun? Grown ups can have gap years too!"

Matt Lauer, graduate of Greenwich High School in Connecticut was in Bhutan the other day as part of NBC's "Today Show" before Dubai. I have enjoyed your amazing journey since you've started this blog. I once attended Stony Brook University and the Anthropology chairperson, an economic anthropologist, had to flee Tibet studying markets there and we had a grad student Yugen Gombo, a Tibetan scholar from Darjeeling. Rex and Shirley Jones had published their fieldwork in "Himalayan Woman" about the Limbu people in eastern Nepal. You have made this once third grader listening to New Zealand's Edmund Hillary who'd come to his class in 1960 very happy. He said we were very lucky to even have a school, where he helps build them. An interesting cave full of murals of the Buddha were announced found the other day from at least the 12th century or earlier Common Era, on the road between Nepal and Tibet. Very interesting. Similar bodhisattva depictions I recall have been found in China. Howard and Fiona blog