JULY 13th, 2007: Phill Michael and Ang Dawa Sherpa are in Kathmandu, Nepal after an amazing Everest Base Camp Trek! Episode 1 of the podcast for www.secretspot.tv is posted!! Check it out! Phill Michael and Ang Dawa Sherpa are preparing for a two week trek to a very remote part of Nepal. Check out the July 10th update for details!

 

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Secret Spot Everest Spring/Summer 2007 Treks

This page will allow you to vicariously enjoy the sights and sounds of our adventures. Take a few moments and relax...and read on...you are now on Nepali time!

You will need QuickTime to view the videos on this page. If you don't have QuickTime...don't panic...you can download it for free...here! Some of the video files are quite large...so be patient with the downloads.

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO A SATELLITE PHONE CALL CONVERSATION, BETWEEN PHILL MICHAEL (NEAR EVEREST BASE CAMP) AND AM570'S 'LOOSE CANNONS' IN LOS ANGELES, THAT HAPPENED ON JUNE 15TH, 2007.

CHECK OUT PART 2 OF OUR JUNE 16th UPDATE BY CLICKING HERE!

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July 13th: The Bourne Ultimatum

by Phill Michael

The Silent Guardian at the Rancho Secret Spot Baja

Episode 1 of our podcast is posted at www.secretspot.tv ! Check it out!

Hmmmm...more internet follies. %^/

Hopefully I don't have any problems connecting with the Loose Cannons in Los Angeles in the wee hours of Friday morn?! Time will tell...

I managed to look at some email from Chris...and he has posted a version of Episode 2 of the podcast for www.secretspot.tv for me to check out. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to download it. Maybe tomorrow?! I'm an optimist! =^)

Jill left me with 'The Bourne Ultimatum' by Robert Ludlum. I don't usually make a habit of reading that kind of literature, but the first few chapters are riveting...so now I'm engrossed in it.

It's interesting to note that a book that was published in 1990 makes only one reference to a cell phone...one in a car. Do you remember when a cell phone was the size of a 20 pound Christmas turkey?! I do...I had one. In the book, the rest of the references to communication devices are pay phones. How things have changed in such a short time. Innnndeeeedy!

A good portion of the book takes place in the Caribbean. Reading about all the sand and ocean make me think about the Rancho Secret Spot Baja...a place I've been neglecting. My whale skeleton has probably melted in the intense summer heat of the Sea of Cortez. Well...probably not...but the mangoes must be weighing down the branches of the mango trees. The image I chose for today takes me right there. Time to make some plans to be there...sooner...rather than later.

Only a few more days and Dawa and I will head out into the wilderness. The rain hasn't been too extreme...at least in Kathmandu...so maybe we won't be wading up to our thighs in leech infested waters. Maybe.

It will be good to get out of the city and stretch the legs and punish the lungs. I can't wait...

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