This has been an exciting month!

By Meg Noble Peterson

On April 17, 2006

In Uncategorized

This has been an exciting month! I finally pulled off a visit to my two youngest sons, Robert and Tom, and Robert’s wife, Gwen Abel, in southern California. Robert and Gwen live in a charming apartment in Playa del Rey, with Jacuzzi and pool, and Tom lives in Marina del Rey, surrounded by a plethora of orchids and resurrected plants that only a master horticulturalist like him could revive. At the same time I enjoyed a reading at the huge and unusual bookstore, Dutton’s in Brentwood. A highlight of the week was a dinner prepared and served by John and Bonnie Cacavas in the exotic setting of their elegant home in Beverly Hills. (They are superb chefs as well as musicians) Their son, John, wife, Stina, and small son, Eric, attended, along with the Petersons and Gwen’s mother, Ruth Abel. I’ve known John since our days in music education, when he was a top band arranger, going on to Hollywood to compose for TV (notably the Kojak show) and many movies. He and Bonnie are superb musicians, song writers, and arrangers. ( Click here for a most unusual entre)

This is the blog for Meg Noble Peterson, whose latest book is Madam, Have You Ever Really Been Happy? An Intimate Journey Through Africa and Asia, the story of her first eight-month solo backpacking trip around the world. A synopsis and excerpts from the book can be found on this website.

I began this blog, detailing my recent adventures throughout the world, in the summer of 2005 with my trip to Sweden and Norway. Scroll down to the end to begin this journey. And be sure to browse the Archives and Categories for more in-depth information with photos and stories.

In the blog I include backpacking trips to northern and southern India, Nepal, Myanmar, Ladakh, Kashmir, Sikkim, Bhutan, and Tanzania, as well as backpacking and hiking in the Pacific Northwest and the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

Here is a quick recap of trips taken before starting the blog:

In March, 2005, I traveled to Prague in the Czech Republic.

In May, 2004, I spent a month with my eldest daughter in Tibet. Together we circumambulated sacred Mt. Kailash over the Dolma La (pass) at 18,000 ft. and Lake Manasarovar at 14,000 ft. We camped in the countryside, mixed with nomads, and visited the sacred places and temples of this beleaguered country.

In May, 2003, I explored the many facets of Peru and climbed on the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

In May, 1999 I did the Wainwright Walk across England from St. Bees Head on the Irish Sea to Robin Hood’s Bay on the North Sea. And in November and early December of the same year I trekked, once again, in Nepal, doing the Annapurna circuit, and going over the Thorong La (pass) at 17,500 ft.

To see the places I traveled on my previous trips, visit the map on this website.

In 1998, my eldest son, Christopher, treated the entire family to a trip to the Galapagos Islands, three years before he died. This will remain one of the high points of all my travel adventures.

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