A 12-hour bus ride. A 20-hour train ride. A 9-hour plane ride. A second 9-hour plane ride. It all added up to one very long trip home. By the time I got here (yes, I am home, finally!), I had spent four full days traveling, using all methods of public transportation known to man: taxi, bus, cycle rickshaw, hired Jeep, train, auto rickshaw, another train, another taxi, plane, shuttle bus, another plane. But most of my time seemed to be spent not actually traveling, but sitting around waiting for these buses, trains and planes. The delays began almost right away, just one hour out of Kathmandu. I never got the full story, but I'm guessing an accident closed the road. For three hours. Thankfully, I had found a Johanna Lindsey book -- one I hadn't already
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