My husband, Tim, and I just returned from a month-long trip to Asia. One week in Bangkok, followed by three weeks in Nepal - a few days in Kathmandu, its capital, followed by a flight to Lukla and a long trek that took us all the way to Everest Base Camp at just under 18,000 feet, where we spent the night (in below-freezing tents!) and hung out with the climbers! We'll start with Kathmandu (pronounced Katmandu). Kathmandu was a wonderful, crazy place! Broken pavement, cars with no emission testing required spewing black smoke, entire Nepali families riding on a small motorbike (babies feet flapping as she sits on the gas tank), sacred cows roaming around as they please, no semblance of travel laws of any kind, Buddhists worshipping at Hindu temples and vice versa, and
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