by Tim Girvin | Oct 24, 2007 | Diary
I’m wrapping it here in Thimphu and heading out to the hills — and will likely be off line for a couple of days. Photo by Tim Girvin Near the bigger towns, the mobile works, text comes in — and my last spot I snagged a WIFI connection. It will be...
by Tim Girvin | Oct 24, 2007 | Diary
Hi. Well I did get there, Bhutan…and it’s been a long running in exploration. It didn’t just happen, there were synchronies involved. And it seems like the best travel takes you about two days to get out there. There’s the first jump, then the...
by Tim Girvin | Oct 22, 2007 | Diary
K U Z U Z A N G B O L A . . .. Bhutan. There must be a reasoning for exploring this place. And for me, there is – and it’s one that stretches back decades. I’ll not get too far into it here, in terms of the specifics, because over course of the days,...
by Tim Girvin | Oct 22, 2007 | Diary
 Aloneness (10.22) | Chele La Pass, Kilagompa Nunnery I have this journal from 2005. I’d started it there on the presumption that I’d be taking that to Bhutan, finishing it in 2006. But I couldn’t put the trip together, given the complexities of...
by Tim Girvin | Oct 22, 2007 | Diary
CHELE LA PASS | The wind, the prayer, the moon We were late, because we keep stopping; there’s clearly a lot to look at; surely much of it I’d known about — but seeing it, it’s wonder making — driving up into the interminable mountains,...
by Tim Girvin | Oct 21, 2007 | Diary
In the blazing heat of the midday sun of Delhi, I’d explored the tombs of Humayn, preserved under the Aga Khan preservation trusts, as well as the UNESCO archaelogical and global cultural treasures collections. Like Angkor Wat, the site is slowly being restored,...