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I didn’t decide by myself to head to Crete, Greece’s largest island in the southern Aegean, to MedTrek for two months. First I went to pay tribute to, and get some guidance from, the iconic Oracle at Delphi. Circe Read more

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Pursuing myriad physical and spiritual paths on mystical and mythical Mount Shasta in Northern California. Read more

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Reaching The Summit In Tibet

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Joel in An Odyssey in China & Tibet, Follow The Idiot, Idiotic Musings | 4 Comments

The hottest spots in Lhasa for expats and foreign tourists to network and swap info, both online and off, are the two Tibet Summit Fine Art Cafés owned by a 46-year-old American from Ohio.

Owner Doug Wilford opened his first Summit Café in 2006.

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Potala Palace Procession

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Joel in An Odyssey in China & Tibet, Follow The Idiot, Idiotic Musings | 27 Comments

The Potala Palace in Lhasa is the iconic symbol of Tibetan Buddhism.

Two monks discuss Tibet’s odyssey with The Idiot below the Potala Palace.

There are only thirty lamas maintaining the estimated 948 rooms in Lhasa’s Potala Palace, the traditional home of the Dalai Lama Read more

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Chinese Are BIG Characters In Tibet

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Joel in An Odyssey in China & Tibet, Follow The Idiot, Idiotic Musings | 6 Comments

One not-so-subtle technique employed by the Chinese government to show who’s the boss in Tibet truly reflects their character(s).

Every sign in Tibet uses Chinese characters that are invariably much larger than the corresponding Tibetan script.

Even The Idiot gets the message!

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Getting High In Tibet

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Joel in An Odyssey in China & Tibet, Follow The Idiot, Idiotic Musings | 15 Comments

Lhasa, Tibet

“You will feel like your mind is sublimed and soul purified as we pass the highest freshwater lake in the world,” blared the loudspeaker on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. The world’s highest altitude railroad, a construction marvel inaugurated in 2006, reaches an altitude of 5,072 meters (16,640 feet) between Xining and Read more

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Chinese Yuan Under Yak Attack

Posted on July 11, 2010 by Joel in An Odyssey in China & Tibet, Follow The Idiot | 8 Comments

The Chinese yuan has not only begun fluctuating against the US dollar. It’s also come under attack by a commodity considered to be as good as gold by Tibetan nomads on the Ganjia Grasslands in central China.

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