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    Omu, The Strong
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Sep 4, 2021
    • 1 min

    Omu, The Strong

    Arriving to a new camp and homestead, Omu sets about going through an unending list of ‘musts’. One of the musts is securing tent ‘fly’...
    Leaf Journeys, Leaf Ageing, and the Heights
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Aug 3, 2021
    • 1 min

    Leaf Journeys, Leaf Ageing, and the Heights

    It was upon the months' long journeys along the Tea Horse Road that the big-leafed 'assamica' material and eternal panacea, tea, would...
    A Pass, The 'Feel', and Karma's Chai
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Apr 27, 2021
    • 1 min

    A Pass, The 'Feel', and Karma's Chai

    The mind wanders back to a pass, a blizzard, and that wonderful thing that exists still: instinct. On a day of few words along a portion...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Part Goat and a Little Part Human
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Mar 9, 2021
    • 2 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Part Goat and a Little Part Human

    Over the course of years since meeting Dorjè I’ve written and pondered much about him. “Part goat and a little part human” was how he was...
    Tea Horse Chronicles - The Bend
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Feb 21, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Chronicles - The Bend

    It was here at the ‘first bend of the Yangtze’, at Shigu, in Yunnan province that the Mongolian armies of the Yuan Dynasty crossed the...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Other Tales and Sight
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Feb 11, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Other Tales and Sight

    Not all stories of the Tea Horse Road were ones of grand expanses, snow caps, or buzzing tea sessions. A friend from the Yi minority...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Empress of Cloth
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Feb 3, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Empress of Cloth

    Ponzera, or Benzilan as it is now known, is a small valley town in northwestern Yunnan that lies alongside a headwater stream of the...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Way Out, and Out Again
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Jan 28, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Way Out, and Out Again

    Yeshi and I shared tea with this old memory palace of time. Goat milk and butter were used instead of yak variations. The tea was deadly...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - There Are No Straight Lines Through the Mountains
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Jan 26, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - There Are No Straight Lines Through the Mountains

    Not heeding the warnings of Sonam Gelek; I should have known better at this stage of our journey than to plunge onwards without his...
    Tea Horse Chronicles - Blessings and Warnings
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Jan 23, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Chronicles - Blessings and Warnings

    It was from this patch of grassland near Napa Lake, just north of my home in Dukezong (old town of 'Shangrila') that our expedition...
    Tea Horse Chronicles - Tea's Value
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Jan 14, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Chronicles - Tea's Value

    “Tea is our everything. I don’t know where it comes from but we take it every day in the morning, afternoon, and night. Our children...
    Tea Horse Chronicles - The Hostess, The Keeper
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Jan 7, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Chronicles - The Hostess, The Keeper

    A nomadic hostess (nemo) offers up a smile to our sun and grime battered crew near Ala Jagung, Tibet. The smile that comes from living so...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Jokhang Boys
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Jan 5, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Jokhang Boys

    After 52 days of trekking from my then home in Zhongdian (aka: Shangrila/Jiantang/Gyalthang) in northwestern Yunnan, a small celebration...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - A Gathering of Women
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Jan 2, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - A Gathering of Women

    Nomadic women of Ganze gather on a grassland to take part in a horse festival. It was through and over such high grasslands that the Tea...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - The Crossing
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Dec 29, 2020
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - The Crossing

    Poignant in this years' end and the arrival of a new time and space. A last vestige of travel across the glacier-fed waterways of the...
    Tea Horse Chronicles - 'The Dorjè'
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Dec 28, 2020
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Chronicles - 'The Dorjè'

    Immersed in a hotspring that is tucked within a mountain cave, sitting beside the venerable and irrepressible Dorjè Kandro. Just days...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Lhakpa
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Dec 21, 2020
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Lhakpa

    Always, it seems that it was the mountain mornings and its still clear cold that would offer up moments and characters along our journey....
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Shar Gong La (The Eastern Gate Pass)
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Dec 15, 2020
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Shar Gong La (The Eastern Gate Pass)

    Upon the Tea Horse Road’s pathways (and there were many), traders, pilgrims, and muleteers alike would refer to the ‘middle route’ as...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Part 1
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Dec 1, 2020
    • 2 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Part 1

    The coming weeks' posts will delve back into the memory palace of moments from our 7.5 month expedition along the Tea Horse Road, to...

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