If anything, the Stokols are enduring a mystery even less accessible than the Holloway family's child vanishing in the Aruban night — there is no hint yet that Trevor Stokol was befallen by violence, but he is on the other side of the planet, in a region surrounded by countries hostile to the United States. Return to the first entry in Trevor's blog that I linked and read the full account of his crossing from China into Nepal — traversing borders over there is nothing so easy as flying to Aruba, where Americans are not even necessarily required to have a passport if they have their birth certificate.
The Dallas News article tells us that Trevor's father is in Nepal, and has already rented a helicopter to search for his son, to no avail.
But the search continues. Reading through Trevor's blog one encounters the mind of a highly intelligent, witty, questing young man, fully invested in the journey of a lifetime. He subtitled the blog, "These ARE the good old days." I read through his colorful travels up to the last entry on July 12, which would appear to have been 10 days before he disappeared, and hope that Trevor Stokol one day has his blog to return to and reminisce, that his subtitle holds true. If you have good old days to look back on, your journey isn't yet done.
(This blog entry is cross-posted from my newest blog, Twilight Kingdom, a blog devoted to covering missing persons and John or Jane Doe cases.)
Article comments
1 - Aaman
Those Yetis!
2 - Eric Olsen
great job Steve, very poignant, thanks
3 - Trekker
The Stokol family has a webpage with updates.
here
Latest news in there now doesn't look good, but who knows: sometimes miracles do happen!
4 - Jessica Bigby
Thank you for this article about Trevor. I gathered the same opinion of him after reading all his journal entries. I don't know Trevor, but his father Arnold has been my optomotrist for the last 15 years and is hands-down one of the kindest people I've ever met, and I know how much he loves his son. Please keep the Stokol family in your prayers...
5 - Steve Yarbrough
Thank you very much for this post. My wife has worked with Dr. Stokol for over 13 years and we have watched Trevor grow from a child to a highly intellegent and sensitive young man who was entering SW Medical School this month. The journal of his travels is well worth reading.
6 - Jesica
My name is Jesica - I'm Trevor's first cousin, living in Australia.
The situation faced by the family is horrible, but there has been so much support from everyone in helping current rescue efforts. He is an incredible individual - funny, intelligent, adventurous, strong and well equipped mentally and physically to survive almost anything.
Thank you for posting Trevor's story - in this way, we hope more love, prayers and thoughts are with him and the family.
7 - Jimmy Myers-former co-worker
I worked with Trevor for a short time at Medical City Hospital in Dallas. I have been there for sixteen years. That being a transition job for most (not me it seems), I have seen many many people come and go. I can honestly say, that Trevor is one of the "good" people. I can sometimes be very hard headed and not very easy to work with. Trevor really opened my eyes on several occasions and in his way, made me see the error of my ways. Eventhough he was ten years younger than I, we had some conversations that made me think that I was the one who was younger. Reading his journal brought back many memories of his passion mixed in with his humor. I have informed all who know Trevor at the hospital of the recent happenings. Everyone who worked with Trevor there offer their hopes and prayers to Trevor and his family in this tough time in their lives. We are hoping for a miracle.
8 - mieke (trekker)
Hi,
Instead of a thumbnail of what the book looks like, why don't you show a PHOTO here of missing Trevor Stokol? Wouldn't that make (more) sense? Such as this recent one, from his own blog and published f.e. by Everestnews:
http://www.everestnews.com/stories2005/pictures/Recent_Trevor_Photo.jpg
Or the one showing his father in Ktm while holding the searchposter, but unfortunately your "automated eyes" don't allow me to copy its URL here too.
Anyway, I guess that's what I would do if it's about the search for a missing person, even though the majority of your readers won't be in Nepal now.
Btw URL of 1SRG's (1st Special Response Group) page on how the search for Trevor is going:
http://www.1srg.org/trevor.html
Updated URL of the family webpage:
http://www.beverleylewin.com/trevorstokol.html
bye.