Tonight is our last night here in Pokhara. Today was spent running around, gathering gear and doing some last minute necessities before we head out on our stroll. The first day we'll be heading to place called Sarankot. It's not very far from Pokhara, but from what I hear, the views are spectacular. Depending on how the painting goes, we may stay a day or two there.
The hike usually takes around 20 days. We're scheduling in another 10 or more. No need to rush. I just want to meander through the mountains and stop when I want, paint when I want and have no schedule for the next month.
After a month of peacefulness, we have to head back to the states. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone, but I'm not looking forward to the travel.
First we have an eight hour bus ride to Kathmandu where we'll stay the night and leave early the next morning for a two hour flight to Delhi. We arrive in Delhi in the afternoon, and the next morning we head on down to Bangalore and stay for the night. In the morning we fly ten hours to London where we stay the night AND switch airports. The next day is another ten hour flight to Atlanta. Depending on our energy level, we may try to push on through and make the twelve hour drive up to Maryland. Once in MD, we can relax for two weeks before we head down to Georgia for two weeks, and then it's another cross country drive out to California. This will be drive number ten.
I sometimes long for the good old days when it all it took was one boat ride to get to another continent. Sure it took six months, but those must have been some pretty relaxing six months. They didn't have any of this switching plane, switching airports, standing in line, getting the full penetration pat down from some goon who couldn't get any other job then with airport security. Back in the old says there was nothing to do, but sit in the crows nest and watch for whales.
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