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 we have certainly done our share of rolling with the punches in the past 15 Continue Reading →
Category: Tibet
How to Make a Travel Blog
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 my Facebook for years, but it doesn’t offer the organization or presentation I’m really looking Continue Reading →
Dekay in Lhasa, Tibet Doing Well
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 I had with one of the three village elders and his wife, son, and granddaughter. Continue Reading →
Boycott China
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 Tibetans against the crackdown that is happening in that country. And “country” it should be, Continue Reading →
Update on our Friends in Tibet
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 trek each year. I had met her in the village and after a few translated Continue Reading →
Tibet Trekking
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 foreigners around. Walking into the large prayer room, we saw a young nun who expressed Continue Reading →