Earthly Musings - My Travel and Geology Blog

Held sacred by modern Japanese, Kyoto embodies all that is ancient and all that is new in Japan. Looking at the picture books of this shrine...

Sitting in the Fairmont Olympic Hotel in downtown Seattle, the trip "Around the World" is about to begin! Last night we had our We...

Some of you may have heard already. Many obviously have not. But while standing beneath Mt. Everest at an elevation of 18,500 feet, Helen an...

Well, after 23 days Helen and I will be flying out of Kathmandu today. It has been an incredible jountrney! Trekking in the highest mountain...

Stayed all day in the mist and clouds of Tyangboche! Visited the monastery and saw the monks praying. We also hung out in a bakery at 12,682...

Here at the holy site of Tyangboche monastery. Walked through a rhododendron forest today that was so wonderful! The air is so thick down he...

The wake-up call came at 4 AM but I had been lying awake for at least an hour before that. I soon realized that I felt pretty good and the ...

Today was to be the day for our ascent of Kala Patar but we all felt as if we weren't ready to ascend that quickly. So our guides offere...

Today we are on the move again and this time we are headed for some serious altitude. Today we will climb higher than the top of Mt. Whitney...

About 1/3 of our group took a short walk to a town called Dingboche. I was too weak to attempt this excursion and used the free time to recu...

Pangboche is a quaint, high Himalayan town nestled among many spectacular snow covered peaks. Many in our group made phone calls home from h...

Over night, three in our group began to feel the effects of the altitude and became too sick to continue. We were of course, very saddened t...

Rising to the the call of "hot tea" at 6 AM, we begin again our upward trek. The day dawned cold and cloudy at 11,300 feet but the...

Words cannot describe what we have seen so far in 3 days of trekking! The Himalayas are spectacular beyond belief. We have never seen mounta...

Nothing can prepare your senses for the sights, sounds, and smells of Kathmandu, Nepal. The many and colorful prayer flags fly in the wind, ...

We made it across the wide Pacific! After a 14 1/2 hour flight on Thai Airways Flight 795 (surprisingly not too long it seemed), we are now ...

Watch this blog for updates on our trip to Nepal and the Everest Base Camp trek to Kala Patar. We will be trying to make updates from these ...

As some of you may know, a controversy regarding the sale of a certain book at Grand Canyon National Park has existed on and off for the las...

A Visit to a Remote Hot Spot on Planet Earth- Reunion Island. Talk about remote! La Reunion is just about the anti-pode of Flagstaff, Arizon...