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Hi there - I just started reading you blog a few days ago. I am planning a trip to Nepal in September and have been reading Nepal blogs, especially the ones over the last few days as the strikes have broken out. I found yours to be very interesting, nice pictures. I thought the food was one thing I was going to love about Nepal, but maybe not. And I see you are from Phila, I am from PA as well, the Lehigh Valley area plus a year of graduate school in Philadelphia, though I no longer live on the East Coast. Welcome home, get some good rest and clean food. Thanks for the stories and pics.

Oh My.......in a far off land
The bucket thing is a upgrade...nice place. Usually a hole in the ground is the standard. Wise decision with the hand sign thing. Have fun. Be careful.

That's crazy. The elementary school that I went to in Hong Kong had those same exact desks!

When you were five years old you would have fired all those questions at the poor stewardess and not rested until she satisfied each one of them with a very detailed answer! LOL Have fun. Mom

Experiences, not money.
The thing that is great is that you now realize how you would like to live the rest of your life. You know that you want to have the free time to keep exploring everything about this world. You want to encounter experiences. Careers, History, Scenery, Food, Cultures, ...Just understanding how everything works in general and is interconnected. You know that when you're 60 years old, you can look back and say "damn, this whole life thing (for me) has been a great and interesting experience". Most people can't do this. At the age of 60, they look back and realize they didn't do much besides work, and relax from work around the house during the weekends. In college, we thought we had to be rich to be satisfied. Now we realize satisfaction comes from experiences. You can work your ass off for years and make alot of money, and die tomorrow in a car accident. At that point, money doesn't mean shit, and you've done nothing except waste time on this planet. You worked your ass off and experienced nothing. Now you are dead, and you can't go back.

trolley, not tram.
That's a trolley. We still have a couple of them in Philadelphia. And that market is similar to the Reading Terminal Market that we have in center city philadelphia.

BE CAREFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gastronomic remark
The goulash is Hungarian, what Czech call goulash is porkolt in Hungary, which might be similar to the one you tried in Czech, though much more tasty. Czech goulash is like french pizza...

Oh man, that's so beautiful! Magnificent is definitely the word. I'd love to visit Austria some day!

Salzburg
Wow, you got great pictures. I went to salzburg in high school and it is my absolute favorite place next to switzerland. I loved hohensalzburg! Enjoy the rest of your trip.