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It’s 8 10 pm Saturday night — that’s 8:10 in the morning in New York, and I’ve finally arrived a hotel with internet access, so I’m catching up. I’ve spent the day with Kuensel’s (that’s Bhutan’s first newspaper) editor and founder Kinley Dorji, and with Rinzin Wangchuk, an editor and writer there. They’ve been briefing us on the Bhutanese elections, and I promise to write more about that as soon as I catch up on some sleep. However, food for thought. After our training session, Rinzin with be traveling with some of the candidates (there are 94, one from each party in each constituency.) Kinley says the distances here are short, the journeys long. He’s not kidding. Some villages where Rinzin will be covering the campaign are three days walk (through the Himalayas!) from the nearest road. Gives a new meaning to the idea of “traveling press.”