Monday, July 26, 2021

Nepali Village Life: Q & A #1

Last week, I shared a video about life in the Nepali village where I lived for 6 out of my 18 months in Nepal.  I received many questions regarding life in the village, so I decided to do a Question & Answer post!  I will happily do another if you have more questions (instructions for how to submit your Q's at the end of this post).

Read on to learn about life in the village!

Reading time: 5 minutes

Thursday, July 22, 2021

Video: Life in a Nepali Village

 In December of 2020, I set out to capture what life is really like in a traditional Nepali village.  This video provides a peek into daily life here.  See a tour of a traditional home, how we cook, how we wash clothes, and how we exist as a family!



Monday, July 19, 2021

The Return: Things I Never Knew I'd Be Grateful For

 They tell me that I should write as much as I can now while everything is still fresh in my mind.  It's a little hard when I'm also expected (by others or by myself) to adjust back in to life here, to apply for jobs, to keep my art business going, to be with my family again, to do household duties, to tend to my health... so here we are, a few weeks out from my return home, and I'm going to do my darned best to write some things down.  Here we go...

Let's dive in to things I am now grateful for that I never knew I would be without.

Reading time: 7 minutes

Thursday, July 15, 2021

Leaving Nepal VI: She's Back (The Arrival)

Here we finally reach the moment we've all been waiting for: after my years of adventures in Thailand and Nepal, I made it back to the US! 

Catch up if you haven't yet read the other parts of the journey:

The Village // Village → Kathmandu // KTM Airport // Dubai // Flying over the North Pole

Reading time: 8 minutes


Monday, July 12, 2021

Leaving Nepal V: Flying over the NORTH POLE

Ready to fly over the North Pole with me??  Welcome to my favorite leg of my journey from Nepal to the US! 

Catch up if you haven't yet read the other parts of the journey:

The Village // Village → Kathmandu // KTM Airport // Dubai

Reading time: 5 minutes


Thursday, July 8, 2021

Leaving Nepal IV: DUBAI

Welcome back to my travels from Nepal to the United States.  This instalment features lavish (and very surprising) airport and flight experiences in Dubai!

Catch up if you haven't yet read the other stints of the journey:

The Village // Village → Kathmandu // KTM Airport

Reading time: 5 minutes


Monday, July 5, 2021

Leaving Nepal III: The Departure

Welcome to my journey from my second home, Nepal, to my first home, the US.

The story begins in 2 parts (The Village // Kathmandu), which left us at the airport, just after parting with my boyfriend, in the first moments of again being a solo traveller.

Reading time: 7 minutes

Thursday, July 1, 2021

Leaving Nepal II: How I Left

In a span of 72 hours, I had to say an unexpected goodbye to my second home, travel across a country in health and political crisis, and do everything in my power to get out on a plane before a total flight ban.  This is part 2 of the account of my experience travelling from a Nepali village to my hometown outside Los Angeles, USA, during an acutely severe pandemic.

Read Part 1 first, here.

Reading time: 13 minutes