by Beth Whitman - Wanderluster (July 31st, 2008)
Last week I watched the Beauty Academy of Kabul, a documentary about a group of American women who spend time in Kabul, Afghanistan, in order to open a beauty school and train local women to cut hair and properly apply makeup for their customers (many of which are brides-to-be). Ya’d think a noble cause, right? [...]
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by Beth Whitman - Wanderluster (July 28th, 2008)
View at Sundance Resort near Park City Next week I’m heading out to the Outdoor Retailer Show (OR, as insiders call it) in Salt Lake City. As serendipity would have it, the tourism folks in Park City recently contacted me about visiting their lovely city on a press trip. Unable to make their already organized [...]
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by Beth Whitman - Wanderluster (July 24th, 2008)
Tshering with his compound bow I got an email this morning from my friend, Tshering, in Bhutan. Tshering is with All Bhutan Connection and is organizing my April ’09 women’s trip there. In addition to getting back to me on some costs for tours next year (the Bhutanese government just implemented an increase in their [...]
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