Rosie came to Nepal through India with two friends from home, Christina and Jessie. They stayed with us for a few days in Patan before going to Everest Base Camp for New Year's 2005. There is a lot of storage space on williambeecher.com, so Rosie's put up photos of India, Nepal, and Thailand.

Two days before leaving for Nepal, there was a surprise going-away party for me at the Rose and Crown. Shop TA Patty put it together, and it was great to see everyone before leaving. I gave my three-day-old digital camera to Scott Kohn for safe-keeping, and these photos were taken by him, Mike Lin, and Patty.

The Tarbato (tar = wire, bato = road) is an ongoing project of EcoSystems. An overhead suspended ropeway has self-propelled cars hanging from it. The target is transportation development at a fraction of the cost of roads. Electric propulsion is coming, but one of Ewan and I's early assignments is to get the tandem-drive cart, designed by the previous interns but not finished building, up and running.