update archive

Here are the archives of the ItinerantWitness.com travel updates. The updates are newsletters that review the past few weeks of travel and link to the blog entries for that time period. They serve to tie my journey together and put the blog entries into the context of a larger time frame.

The archives are also listed at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ItinerantWitnessTravelUpdates/messages. You can sign up to receive emails of the updates here.

• Update 1: report from Manali; (June 6, 2006)
• Update 2: leaving Manali to explore Kinnaur and Spiti Valleys in Himachal Pradesh; (June 19, 2006)
• Update 3: Arrived in Spiti Valley; (July 5, 2006)
• Update 4: Went to the Himalayas, now to Nepal for one day, then back to the Himalayas; (July 28, 2006)
• Update 5: I'm whizzing up to Ladakh, and I've added some features to ItinerantWitness.com; (August 1, 2006)
• Update 6: Heavy rain in Ladakh for the first time in fifteen years; (August 8, 2006)
• Update 7: Blog entries with good photos of landslides, bridges, and Buddhas; (August 11, 2006)
• Update 8: I see a sand mandala and get sand blown in my face on the world's highest road; (August 20, 2006)
• Update 9: Bangalore, tropical city with not much monsoon; (August 27, 2006)
• Update 10: Living in Bangalore; (September 12, 2006)
• Update 11: Leaving Bangalore, headed to Mysore Dasara festival; (September 25, 2006)
• Update 12: The contrast between Mysore and Hampi; (October 10, 2006)
• Update 13: Happy in Hampi; (October 19, 2006)
• Update 14: Zigzagging across the Western Ghats of South India: Karnataka to Kerala; (November 12, 2006)
• Update 15: catching fever and ridding it in a Madurai Hospital; (December 4, 2006)
• Update 16: Goodbye India, Hello Thailand; Merry Holidays!; (December 24, 2006)
• Update 17: Thailand is not India; (January 13, 2007)
• Update 18: Life in Krabi, Thailand; (February 6, 2007)
• Update 19: Returning to the U.S after one year; a milestone in my travels; (March 5, 2007)