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Nepal Trip 2007: Day 6 (trekking day 3): Phaplu 17 October 2007 9:14 am

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Happy birthday to my aunt Beth! You are ten thousand kinds of awesome, and there’s no way we would have gone on this trip without you, so thank you very much for everything. Readers, if you would please direct your blessings and good thoughts her way, that would be super-cool, and I thank you for that as well.

Phaplu (2,470 meters high) is in the Solu region, south and west of the Khumbu and Pharak regions, and is often featured as a stop on treks in the valley up to Everest, perhaps because it has an airport, which could be used to get a head start on such a trip. In our case, that airport is where we’re rejoining my mom, who’s been spending the past few days in and around Kathmandu for the sake of her fractured ankle, for which we’ll be renting her a horse, which might well be a source of comedy gold. Oh, and in other potential sources of excitement, according to some of the guidebooks I’ve read, we’re now getting close to yeti country. Awesome!

Here’s Phaplu on Google Maps:

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This post was written and scheduled for automagical posting in the week before I left on this crazy adventure. I hope to write many more posts about the trip — you know, with more actual details and pictures and stuff — but for now this is all we’ve got while my intergoogle access is all kinds of sporadic during my travels from October 9 until November 6.