Thinley had gone the national dress code one better, donning ceremonial knee-high leather boots with upturned toes to welcome Connecticut-based photographer Kit Kittle, an old family friend, and me.

FORBES: Uncovering Bhutan, Land Of The Mountain Gods

While While Thinley and Kittle reminisced, I sneezed.

FORBES: Uncovering Bhutan, Land Of The Mountain Gods

Kittle the younger's article ( "Manila Rules") is this issue's Memoir, an essay about an after-graduation year off that commenced with loafing around home in Greenwich and wound up, somehow, with him being introduced in the center ring at the world cockfighting championships in Manila.

FORBES: Editor's Note