Epilogue This ended our trek in the Annapurna region of Nepal. It was truly an adventure of a lifetime. The mountains are awe inspiring. The Nepali people we met were open and friendly and glad to share their country with us. We expect to stay in touch with Dilman as well as with David and Jane. Our pictures are treasures. Our plane to Jomsom was a little late, but great fun. I got a few good pictures from the air. We stayed in Pokara for 2 nights, mostly relaxing and sightseeing. Bruce got a shave and a massage. We rented a [View Full Entry]

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November 8, 2008 Saturday Day 19 Today is the last day of actual trekking - back to Jomsom. And on Sunday we catch a morning flight to Pokara. We stayed at Hotel Nightingale in Muktanath last night. It’s a rather large hotel and all the rooms were full. Our room door opened off the roof. We met an American expatriate named Susan whose room was also on the roof and was actually set aside as a temple or meditation room. She is on a spiritual quest to Muktinath and was rather pleased with her room. We enjoyed having dinner with her [View Full Entry]

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November 7, 2008 Friday Muktinath Day 18 It’s 1:05 p.m. We’re sitting in the street level dining room at Hotel Nightingale in Muktinath. The group of Europeans we met in Kagbeni just arrived by horse back! The walk was a little harder today (more uphill) but much more interesting. We walked east from Kagbeni along the Thong Khola (Thong River) through Klingar (very small) and Jharkot (a little larger) where we stopped for a tea break. We went uphill, then flat and then more uphill to Muktinath. It took us about 4 ½ hours t [View Full Entry]

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November 5, 2008 Wednesday 2:30 p.m. Marpha Day 16 Dilman just came to us (we’re sitting on a sunny rooftop of the Dhaulagiri Guest House in Marpha) to tell us that Obama has won the election. Tomorrow we’ll be in Kagbeni and should be able to catch some news on the internet. It was quite cloudy yesterday; a few drops of rain fell during lunch, but then stopped while we walked through Lajung and into the neighboring town of Kharbang, also referred to as Khobang where we stopped at a very quaint western-looking lodge called the Musk [View Full Entry]

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November 4, 2008 Tuesday (Election Day) Day 15 We won’t know anything about the election until tomorrow night or Thursday because of the time difference. It seems strange. A small group of Germans and a large group of French stayed at the Golden Inn Guest House in Ghasa last night as well as us. Groups are never as sociable as individuals or couples, so we didn’t socialize much. We read our books and relaxed. It clouded up last evening and remains very cloudy and misty today. After a fairly easy (on the dusty road) 5 hour trek and 1 hour lunch [View Full Entry]

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November 3, 2008 Monday Day 14 Ghasa We walked from Tatopani to Ghasa (or Ghansa as it is spelled on the menu). We’re at the Golden Inn Guest House. We had an early wakeup call from Dilman at 6:30 a.m., but it took us forever to get organized and packed. We had breakfast at 7:20 and left the Guest House at 8 a.m., arrived at Ghasa at 2:30 p.m. with several short breaks - tea break, apple break, then a coke and boiled egg break. Again the walk was different than any other day. The trail starts up the Kali Gandaki [View Full Entry]

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November 2, 2008 Sunday 1 p.m. Lunch at Shikha Day 13 We hung out in the dining hall (Ghorapani) as usual. Bruce didn’t want to explore because he wanted to rest his knees as much as possible. The dining room was very large and more like a restaurant than any of the others - more separate tables, less communal. I had dal bhat for dinner. It was very good. Then to bed - me at 7:30; Bruce got kicked out of the dining room at 8 so he came to bed also. Everything was very comfortable except there was a very [View Full Entry]

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November 1, 2008 Saturday Ghorepani (Horse Water) Day 12 We relaxed in the dining room (which had a fire under the table - so our feet got quite warm - nice) most of the afternoon and early evening. We met a young woman from San Francisco who is trekking alone. She is on a 3 ½ month unpaid leave from her job teaching pharmacology at SF teaching hospital. She spent a few wild intense weeks in India, and then decided on the spur of the moment to go trekking in Nepal, so she got on a train to Kathmandu, found a [View Full Entry]

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October 31, 2008 Friday 7:00 a.m. Day 11 Last night was the last night of festival. Bruce and I had 2 glasses of Raksi - local millet wine - and got sleepy, so we went to bed too early for Bruce who woke during the evening. I think Dilman and Dharma and Durga were partying because no one is around waiting on us yet. Today is supposed to be an easy uphill walk through deep forest. Originally noted as somewhat of a rest day. Bruce says his knees feel fine. This is our first day trekking without Jane and Dave, and [View Full Entry]

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October 30, 2008 Thursday Ghandruk Day 10 Wrong! It wasn't 1 ½ hours to Ghandruk; it was about 1 ½ hour to Komrong - all uphill after you cross a bridge over a small river. And then, according to Lonely Planet: “a steep climb through a forest on an interminable set of switchbacks” to Komrong. Then it was level or even slightly descending to Ghandruk. It started to rain shortly after we left Kimrong. The switchbacks were unending. It was warm, so we were sweaty inside our ponchos. We were all walking kind at our own paces. Jane and Vim [View Full Entry]

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