Nepal 2009

Just returned from a month in Nepal. Kevin Dougherty was in my Peace Corps group, and we both jumped on the chance to go back one more time, this time to trek Manaslu. A great time, yet couldn't help think about Ken often, as we had a great time there too in 1986 and 1987. Ken never trekked there, but I did take him to Nagarkot on the eastern rim of the Kathmandu Valley to see the sunset and sunrise over the Himalaya. We got as far west as Pokhara as well. He loved to collect flags, and had a large Nepal flag on his bedroom wall for many years after. I'm always thankful that he came out, and that he didn't hesitate to see the world, and he did see a lot of it indeed.

Still to Come

I am finally nearing the end of print scanning and uploading, with perhaps a few dozen or so yet to go. It's our large slide collection that will take the better part of a year to get off the ground. The hardest part will be finding photos of Ken, and not just by Ken, which are far more numerous (thousands, that is). And among those, photos of Ken in places I know he and or we have been to. That includes more photos of India and Nepal, Thailand, Burma, the Philippines, and Korea, not to mention Europe (England, Denmark, Spain). Also, Ken dove in Lake Champlain, Lake Michigan, Truk Lagoon (twice), and visited Hawaii on the way there. His diving alone would leave traces all over the globe; so far, just a few sites have been mapped. He also visited Australia twice, which is where his diving started; on the Great Barrier Reef. Oh yeah, I almost forgot Expo '67 in Montreal...If I can't find photos of Ken, I will substitute photos I can find of those places for mapping purposes. He did well in his abbreviated passage through this life.