I’ve just received another email from a friend regarding this topic. I never read Fred. I had seen the site once and can’t remember why. Anyway, I went over there just now and he is calling it over.  I loved the last post, wish I had read more. perfect timing as always, JR. Anyway, I’m adding it to my Link List.

I am shortly going to Johns Hopkins for a corneal transplant, this being the belated result of a largely forgotten foray by the US into military adventurism.

I know quite a lot about this procedure and its origins. I was hooked right there.

Nepal, I am persuaded, cannot survive without my doing some serious trekking over it. I cannot let an entire country die for want of my attention. There are crazy friends from distant times and far places with whom I need to eat noodles in various remote back streets and tell lies.