We are officially four days behind our schedule for getting our gear into bags and ourselves ready to carry it all to Nepal. If we were just going trekking, or just going to Kathmandu to make a documentary, we’d be better off. But the double-whammy of doing both of these things interrelatedly is really kind [...]
First big task of the packing-packing (the part where I’m actually moving stuff into containers, rather than just thinking about it):
Assembling and labeling all the various power devices. We’ve got a solar panel, about six different kinds of batteries, about nine different kinds of chargers/adapters, and an alarmingly wide variety of cables that either attach [...]
Today I went shopping with my mom for trekking boots. Yes. She bought them for me. Her biggest fear is me having wet feet atop a mountain. I think she is afraid I will buy too cheap boots if I get them myself and they will leak and I will get pneumonia. I love my [...]
Rec’d this reassuring email from the Little Sisters Fund’s director, Trevor Patzer, today.
Things look good politically. The Maoists won the
election but they did not win “big enough” to rule
with impunity. Instead, they will have to work with
others in the government to form the majority they
need. This is good. They plan to re-write the
constitution… which will [...]
We’re in the initial stages of the final phases of putting our kit together. Today I’ll be fitting the cameras into cases and figuring out what goes where and how it’ll get there. We will need to configure three basic kits:
Travel: How We Get All The Stuff Over There
Trek: What We Carry On The Long [...]
