This was 1985 starting on December 11th when we (all my family, my wife and son and two step kids) who were all 10 to 14 years of age then. I was seriously worried about my son from my first marriage because he was the least prepared for this journey psychologically. However, in the end he adapted the best except for food by buying a full set of Tin tins starting with a ratty copy of Tin Tin in Tibet from an open street market in New Delhi that looked like it had been run over with a few trucks (at least the cover). However, my son who was 10 then read this (Comic Book?) (more like a Classics Illustrated than anything else) over and over in fascination with the Himalayas, Tin Tin, the Yeti, etc.
And when we actually trekked through the Himalayas and visited villages and places like in "Tin tin in Tibet" and met many Sherpas who are also Tibetan Buddhist usually while trekking about 50 miles up to 10,000 feet with my family then, he was enthralled with all these amazing experiences because he then had a cartoon context to put it all into.
Each one of the children has become a total world traveler and they have all been all over the world as adults and as fearless travelers after our 4 months in Japan, Thailand, Nepal and India.
It was good we went to Tokyo, Japan first. Because we entered extreme culture shock in stages this way. If we had had to go to Kathmandu or India first I think we all might have just got on a plane right then and come home quickly.
Because Asia (all the countries there) are overwhelming if you have never been to anywhere but the U.S., California, Canada, the western states and Mexico and Hawaii until then which was my experience at that point in my life. So, this opened doors inside me that I didn't even know existed and permanently changed me in ways I really cannot explain.
I met so many powerful, intelligent, sincere, and yet childlike people that you would never meet here in the U.S. because of the more cynical culture that we live in. About 60 % of the people I met had never been to school likely more than a day or two or a week in their entire lives.
They begged us, "hundreds and maybe thousands of especially people in India and Nepal to take them with us when we returned to the U.S.
But, being mostly uneducated it also meant they had no legal documents or birth certificates which meant there might be no way to get papers for them to legally travel to any other country anyway, especially by plane.
But there often poor uneducated people don't recognize boundaries anyway. So, often they just walk through borders where there is no crossing guard soldiers and poor people often do this everywhere in Asia as long as they hopefully don't get shot or something like that.
So, often people might just walk 6 months to get somewhere. We also met Tibetans for example, that had walked to Bodhgaya India from Kham Province in Tibet for the Kalachakra Tantra with 500,000 people there from all over the world. People walking 6 months to get somewhere is actually much more common in Asia than you might think if you don't have enough money to buy train tickets, or plane tickets or are not educated and have no papers at all or even a birth certificate. Maybe 50% to 60% of the people we met likely had no birth certificates at all in India or Nepal for example. And also they couldn't read in any language either.
So, this was India, Nepal and other places in the 1980s, which was a different place from now. I haven't been back there since because I had to educate my children as best I could. They all have at least one college degree now each and are doing well in California, Oregon and in other places around the world.
The best way I can put this is: "Going to India and Nepal specifically was in many ways like visiting another planet with completely different rules for everything. So what is likely still true is: "when in Rome do as the Romans do" or likely you will soon be in a ditch somewhere without your head attached.
This is the reality then and now from the Middle East to Bangladesh and even further East than that.
When you consider 70% of Americans have never had or will have or get a passport, it says a lot about most Americans right there.
Because if you are going to do something like my family and I did, you have to be very adaptable to survive something like this. However, if you are adaptable you might have a really amazing time while on "Another world".
Because these places are not at all like being in the U.S. or Europe ever.
And if you aren't educated as to what you need to do you don't come back from places like this.
It turns out that 1 year ago they actually made a video of: Tintin in Tibet: In fact if you click on the big blue picture of the Captain in Rain Gear I found it loads this cartoon if you wish:
Here's a little on Tin tin in Tibet:
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