It’s around 7 am and as usual I am up and about before Prem and Bulram. It is a cool morning due to the torrential downpour that we had last night. I was extremely happy that we were dry and cozy inside sitting by the stove in the tea house dining room. It was a full blown thunderstorm including lightning and wind driven sheets of rain. It would have been miserable to… Read More

Since a picture is worth a thousand words and I have tons of pictures to share I thought I would simply do a blog today that is some more photos.                

I actually slept later today for some reason and did not wake up until almost 6:45. But there was no hurry as we only had a short walk, maybe three hours, to our overnight stop. Today is mainly a rest day. I was pleasantly surprised when I crawled out of my sleeping bag to find that the temperature was manageable. I did not have to immediately dive into my down jacket as… Read More

Today’s summary: we descended in one day what it took two days to ascend. As we were hiking down the valley today I started feeling a glowing sense of accomplishment the further we went because it was ALL down. It was at that point I realized exactly just how much “up” we had climbed the previous two days. Going up my glutes were cranky, coming down my knees were complaining but I… Read More

I woke up this morning thinking that today was going to be a difficult clothes day. I peeked out my window and saw the sun shining in a bright blue clear sky. That the sky was clear was not too surprising as I could hear a fierce wind blowing. No cloud had a chance of staying in one place with the way the wind was howling past my window. In addition our… Read More