Another picture post, this time with flashback to Nepal! 28 November 2007 10:17 am
Posted by Tracy in : garden,Kathmandu,nepal,pictures,tea,travel , trackbackI keep having these weird moments when I realize where I was one month ago — today it’s Mani Rimdu in Tengboche, for which my automagical post predicted. “Picture me taking notes furiously, till my hand cramps up with the effort” and was exactly right on. The masked dances alone take up pages 14-22 of the second paper journal I ended up filling on the trip (eventually I had to start a third) and then there’s three or four more pages of other writing for that day. It was a doozy.
So this morning as I bravely sipped my first cup of the milk tea I bought in Kathmandu (so strong it actually demands milk and even sugar), remembering Tengboche got me motivated to wrangle a few more Nepal trip photos, this time from the morning before we left on our trek, October 14.
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It was probably jet lag at first, and later on it was camping trip jet lag, the habit of waking up around sunrise on trail, but I always seemed to wake up between 5 and 5:30 AM in Kathmandu. Soul Coughing fans may be amused to hear that it always made me think of “Screenwriter’s Blues” — “It is 5 AM, and you are listening…” in this case, to Kathmandu (that link will take you to the appropriate music video on YouTube). On the morning before our trek, I couldn’t even bring myself to go back to sleep. I’d been pretty much insane the night before, and my brother took the pictures to prove it:
Dignity, always dignity. But back to that morning, when was up so early there wasn’t a lot of Kathmandu noise to listen to. I couldn’t bring myself to go back to sleep and didn’t want to wake Piett, so I headed out to the Hotel Utse’s rooftop garden to do a little picture-taking and paper journal writing (eventually I did write, “It is 6:30 a.m., and I am listening to Kathmandu”). The sun had already started to rise when I got out into the hotel hallway:
which meant that the Hotel Utse’s fabulous rooftop garden was well-lit and pretty freaking magical:
And now I have to race off to work but you’re all cordially invited to check out the rest of the pictures on Flickr. There’s good stuff, I promise! Like this:
See? Yay!
