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I'd think whatever is used for the O'Reilly factor audience would work well.

This is Canada - they'll just restrict you to 1 a month. Or raise the taxes on them.

So don't buy the POS - it is too good to be true. A partner had his less than year old nikes battery die on a warm July rainier. Suunto aren't bad, I like my old avocet.

I've met some of the most interesting, well versed, coolest people ever travelling. For me you have to get off the beaten path, which takes more and more work (and more time than you get on an American vacation) with every year. Or maybe it's just my cynicism, aggravated by a recent visit to Nepal where I saw what a dump the tourists have made of portions of the city and country side, the general zoo like atmosphere (oh - look at the peasants, aren't they quaint!), and tried to beat into the heads (generally unsuccesfully) that for as "modern" as Kathmandu is - only 15% of the population lives like that. The others thresh grain under bus tires (if near a road) or use hand cranked stone grist mills if not so lucky. But enough of a soapbox. Oh, and r.e. mufti - if you are white, you stick out like a sore thumb in India. Yes, even in a saree - which may be comfortable in the heat of summer. In the dead of winter? No. Wear pants and a shirt like the rest of the Indians who can afford do.

Hence the local network SIM card take an international flight nowadays and watch the frequent travellers change SIMs (or phones)

Farmer late bringing you in from pasture again?

Not really. There's still no cheap way into the kingdom via air. There are more airlines flying KTM-DEL (Jet Airways is probably the best, Air Sahara decent, Cosmic Ok, but all better than AI or RNA), but Delhi is still expensive to fly into and a shithole airport. I went in via BKK and exited KTM-Varanasi via CosmicAir. It was probably partly the low December season but in talking to people the tourist industry is hurting for visitors so there's lots of negotiating room pricewise. Unless you've got a tight schedule the turmoil shouldn't be too bad. Still lots of Euros running around; the biggest drop sounded to be in numbers of Americans.

I dunno, I thought it was nice with only 60-70% of the tourists that were there before. Otherwise "worse" seemed only to apply to the Nepalese.

Buy a cheap unlocked quadband phone off ebay (or if your phone is 900/1800 unlock it and use it), and buy a SIM card for whatever provider is cheap in the Ukraine like maybe this. Some/many airports now have cellphone rental boths at the airport. Or buy a satphone off eBay and get a contract.

It only adds to the dream like ethereal fuzziness of the fantasy world depicted. Clearly we are viewing the artists thoughts and hopes. Magnificent.

I was there over Christmas. If you don't mind some transport disruptions, communication disruptions, and mind your surroundings (unlike half the stoned hippie fucktards there) you should be fine. I experienced no disruptions, but did see a riot (or rather I saw it between rock throwings and quickly left). It's neither as dangerous as the State dept hyperbole makes it out (I saw worse riots in Argentina this past year) nor as benign as the boosters would have you believe. Tourism is one of the main industries in Nepal, all sides of the conflict realize that. From the people I talked to nobody liked the Maoists (except for their corruption fighting) and the King wasn't well like either. But hey, the US has decided to prop him up. Soldiers armed with caplock rifles aren't a major threat.

Try asia. There are whole cities filled with them. Oh - and people trying to "understand" the local culture who can't quite comprehend that it's no longer sustainably subsistance, western medicine (among a few other factors) has made them unsustainably subsistance. It's good fun if you can keep your lunch down.

Especially if we included #13 a well honed loathing and smug sense of superiority over the rest of your fellow travelers, most of who are exactly like you (I score highly in this category).

Heh. I like approaching obvious canadians (accent) adorned with Canadian flags and asking them "So where are you from in the States?" #11 - Tourists adorned with multiple cameras. Bonus points for multiple points for each top of the line SLR in posession. Double bonus points for bright neckstraps emblazoned "Canon" or "Nikon". Triple bonus points if they have an assistant to carry their gear. #12 Tourist haggling for more than x minutes over monetary amounts less than $5x. i.e. more than a minute for amounts less than $5, 2 minutes less than $10. Should perhaps be a log scale.

Did you email them? They sometimes can get things that aren't listed on their website.

little and cock don't go well together

1) Clutched Guidebook in pocket. Bonus points for couple studying inaccurate and crappy Lonely Planet map with befuddled gaze. 2) Local clothing for color. Gringo wearing some hideously woven, garish, only for tourists shawl or shirt. 3) Culture by injection. Look for young western woman on the arm of local male. Particularly popular in places like Argentina and Nepal. Double bonus points for foreign men with local prostitues (except in Thailand - no points awarded at all) 4) Expedition size backpacks for a week long trip. Quadruple bonus points awarded for porter carrying expedition size backpack on 5 day teahouse trek for gringo. Oh - JayB you should head somewhere like Ko Sanh road - but the rules would change. There you'd have to get 5 in a row on the road in real life.

Good, grass fed beef is where it's at!

Some us see the inner beauty. Now pass the pepper and the steak knife.

Damn your loins look tasty minx. I'm salivating right now.

only cause you always have a couple OZs of the chron Girls are sadistic, materialistic, looking for a man makes them opportunistic. You are right, they are all the same. Exactly the same. thank you for your articulate, lucent, powerful insight. and the nefarious female misses another pop culture reference ... one that isn't exactly recent.

Didn't like my posting this in your bitch about the youth thread

To my Buddies: Yer still cool. You are still looking for that special guy who'll snuggle at the bivy though.

Goode, as has been shown elsewhere, is a retard and asshole.

And alot more Santorum