Thoughts on family and personal life and things that interest me. A trek in the Himalayas. View from our high altitude camp. Heavy incessant rains for over twenty hours kept us zipped down in our three man tents and led to aborting the trek for the day. The rains subsided later in the morning and we spent the rest of the day in the fabulous settings that surrounded our camp site. Thankfully all of us crossed over safely and so did our vehicles and we were soon screeching our way, in a let.

Travelling with my home on my back and in no hurry to get anywhere. Well, before Broome became famous for its beautiful pearls it was just as famous for its mother of pearl shell. The industry suffered from a high death toll, with hazards from shark attack. And frequently, the bends.

When we give credit to thinking a certain item, or a certain place, or a certain anything will make us happier, we forget about how much happiness we get from simply the novelty of it. Think about the last thing you bought for enjoyment. Was it a DVD? In my usual case, A Video Game? Novelty wears.

He walked in like a sudden storm meant to make me astounded, like a fire I was drawn to him, he was wearing his college uniform, his hair uncombed as it seemed, fit perfectly with his lonely set of eyes and I only paid attention to him, I thought to myself; Who in their right mind would go out in public without even fixing his hair? Him apparently, I was amused. He was weird and prosaic, but to me he was perfect.