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...this could soon change. A road is slowly creeping through the heart of Upper Mustang. It connects Lo Monthang to Tibet, carrying cheap Lhasa beer and change to the walled city. Workers are painstakingly hacking out the northward road from the rock along the Kali Gandaki River as I write. Within decades, maybe far sooner, the old trade route from Tibet to India will be revived in far different form, Tata trucks rumbling over the ancient paths on which yaks once marched...
Friends, food and drink are so ingrained as an unholy trinity that the ad slogan for the Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery chain is "Good Friends, Great Food, Great Beer"--all three of which, we now know, make you fat. Apparently in that order...
...Golan itself, which rises like a table of volcanic rock at the top of the Jordan Valley and the Sea of Galilee, there's little sense that anyone is even contemplating the possibility of packing up and leaving as a result of a land-peace swap with Syria. Nowhere is that more clear than in the town of Avneitan, home to some 23 families forcibly evacuated by the Israeli government from settlements in the Gaza strip in 2005. These Orthodox families believe that Jews have a divine mandate to live not just within the current borders of the Jewish state...
...Recently, fellow Firehouse dweller and local-access television celebrity Jayne Freeman asked me if I would be opposed to throwing a punk rock concert in the old engine garage. Blessed with such an ideal living situation and cursed with an inner early teen that refuses to embrace the onset of my 20s, I only asked: “Do you need help carrying in the beer...
...cleared the garage of broken athletic equipment and age-old recycling and stashed the stroller upstairs (after we used it to cart in a case of Brooklyn Lager, of course). After considering the important factors of noise pollution and bedtime, we set doors to open at the admittedly un-rock n’ roll time of 7 p.m. On the plus side, we figured this gave us at least an hour before the cops showed...