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Nepal Trip 2007: Day 21: Lukla-Kathmandu, LIVE! 1 November 2007 12:20 am

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Dear friends,

First, the long story short: I am alive and well and in Kathmandu, and the trek was awesome and my brain is way too full to write much coherently. The very mushy part next: I have been carrying some of your names and addresses on paper in my pocket for most of this trip, but all of you have been in my very sappy little heart the whole time, so there. For now, I will leave you back with the regularly scheduled automagical post, because I can’t seem to get an internet cafe computer where I can upload even a very few pictures (dangit!) and in case those last few sentences didn’t make it abundantly clear, I am having a very hard time organizing my thoughts, let alone writing them down.

A short time that feels like a lifetime ago, I was thinking ahead to this very day when I wrote:

If all goes well, today we fly from Lukla back to Kathmandu, where the Hotel Utse awaits us. Laundry services, here I come! (Apparently flights in and out of Lukla can be even more erratic than other flights inside Nepal, because it’s such a popular destination. Also things can be especially busy around the Mani Rimdu festival, but we’ve scheduled a few extra days in and around Kathmandu so it’s okay if we’re delayed at Lukla.)

Where are the hardcore kids, you may be wondering. Well, today they’re going over Renjo Pass (5,340 meters) but they may also have done a side trip to Gokyo Ri (5,483 meters). Yes, they are stupendously badass. All I have to do today is survive a little puddlejumper plane flight!

Okay, one little bitty addendum: please go search for Lukla airport on YouTube. The videos are pretty hilarious.