Lhakpa La's  Free Tibet World motorcycle ride calls to mind Che Guevara’s historic ride around South America.  The deeply weird aspect of the whole Tibetan Issue is for all the strong feelings, articulate speech, impassioned words, there is a hollowness.  Rare is the protest, the deomstration.  Rarer still is any action on the part of the United Nations - or the not-so-united nations, for that matter.  www.freetibetworldtour.com is where to go ...and keep going.

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