Zephyr Blog

Today is April 4, 2012.  Fifteen years ago today, Allan Wright quit his corporate job with food company Cargill, and Zephyr Adventures (formerly called Zephyr Inline Skate Tours) was born.  “Rolling” is a great metaphor to describe Zephyr’s journey, as … Continue reading →

Gone are the days of projector slideshow recaps of your summer vacation.  Yet in a digital age, there’s even more to share with your friends and family!  I have been sharing my photos, videos and thoughts from my travels on … Continue reading →

Some regular readers of this blog might remember that back in 2006 we at Zephyr Adventures sponsored a young Tibetan girl to get educated in Lhasa. My post from that year read: “My personal highlight this year was a conversation … Continue reading →

I have focused only on Zephyr’s tours in this blog. Rightly so, too, since that is the blog’s purpose and why readers spend time reading it. At this point, however, I feel I need to speak out in support of … Continue reading →

Exactly one year ago I posted an entry titled Tibet Trekking. Scroll down to read the post. In that entry, I related the story of Dekay, the granddaughter of one of the elders of the village we visit on our … Continue reading →

Our group of 11 trekkers and three guides were walking through a small nunnery above Lhasa. Although we had seen other tourists at the large, popular monasteries we had visited in the morning, at this nunnery we were the only … Continue reading →