we're back
Well most of us are...
Josh --first on the right in the photo above-- is presently trekking in the Annapurna region.
The last time I saw son #2 was in the Thar desert of Rajasthan. We had to make our way back to Kathmandu via Delhi. I bid my camel --Laloo--and Josh a fond farewell, caught a jeep back to Jaisalmer, threw everything into the backpacks for the umpteenth time and boarded the train for India's big smoke.
INDIA!
India...we thought you were going for a quiet stroll in the Himalayas?
Yes, yes we did do that. One stroll anyway.
But I got crook didn't I.
Made it to the Gokyo Lakes--a smidge under 5,000 meters--AMS and asthma aaaannndd an upper respiratory tract infection. Couldn't do the planned second trek at the Tibetan border. What to do?
Go south, and see Varanassi, Agra and all those romantic sounding cities in Rajasthan.
Did we have a great holiday experience?
Hold your horses, I'll tell you all about it...in dribs and drabs, when we get better.
It seems we brought more than we bargained for in the Subcontinent.
A nasty virus, a variant of Glandular fever.
Gone is the intrepid trekker, camel rider extraordinaire and savvy haggler.
Failed Painter is nurse, cook and bottlewasher.
Some things never change.
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Oh my this sounds amazing in good and bad ways. I've missed you Loretta. Hope everyone heals fast and will wait patiently for the dribs and drabs from you.
Oh my!Poor family and you! got your postcard!!!
I will send you my recipe for garlic soup...should cure everything. If not I suggest rum...hot and with honey and lemon.
Welcome home!
Welcome home, my dear. That is a stunning piece of photographic work.
You have had another great adventure that most of us will never have. Even the bad parts can be remembered fondly, given enough time.
I'm jealous of your life right now. I wish I could travel anywhere right now.
And I missed you too JB!
The trip put a lot of things in perspective and I hope to make some changes in my life...in due course. Oliver is not contagious anymore and though feeling weak and several kilos lighterhe's back at school today.
Garlic soup is what they serve at high altitude CA...I guess it is a universal cure all. I have been making large pots of chicken soup--with garlic of course.
Our sherpa guide took that photo Michael and I photoshopped it to look a bit like those olde black white pictures of intrepid explorers. I'm certainly feeling a tad vintage at present.
Hi Faulty, I didn't start travelling until I was 29ish...and it's always been on the smell of an oily rag--or perhaps the oil of the smelliest rag. If travel is what you want, then travel you shall, but not everywhere is better than where you presently are...although it does look a bit cold and snowy.
Hi Loretta, I am glad you and your family are back in the district. I just don't feel right unless there is a certain density of artists and interesting people in the local district and when you guys leave the place gets a bit of a wobble up.
I hope to catch up in the near future - I will most likely bump into you if something is not planned before hand or if something is planned then I will probably bump into you anyway.
David
Great photo. Waiting with baited breath to read what you got up to over there.
so how are you all? I hope you are fairing better than many other of your countrymen...so sad to hear the terrible, tragic, tear oozing news.
Skype says you either have not logged in for a long time or have blocked me...I am hoping it is the first.
need a good chin wag to get brought up with all the events.
Hi David,density is duscussed at length around here. Nice to know somebody missed us...local that is. Yoda says 'catch up we must.'
Hey Bridie, hope you haven't been singed...I don't shudder much normally but the thought of those poor souls who've perished in the worst imaginable way. We are holding our breaths and praying ...in an agnostic fashion.
Now I feel really guilty CA,
I will fire up the skype and talk with you soon.
Hi David,density is duscussed at length around here. Nice to know somebody missed us...local that is. Yoda says 'catch up we must.'
Hey Bridie, hope you haven't been singed...I don't shudder much normally but the thought of those poor souls who've perished in the worst imaginable way. We are holding our breaths and praying ...in an agnostic fashion.
Now I feel really guilty CA,
I will fire up the skype and talk with you soon.
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