Sorry about the mass email - especially to some of you that I haven't
corresponded with for sometime. However, I hope you'll agree it's much
more interesting to get a random email from Nepal telling you about
traveling adventures than a scheduled email without much new to say
:-)
The Backstory:
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I was in Boston till about the end of August, doing the usual work
thing - climbing, working on interesting things - life was good.
However, it was in a holding pattern, not moving in any particular
direction - I was lacking any real long term goals and had few short
term goals that I could get excited about. So I figured instead of
chilling in Boston, I should get back to traveling, experience the
world, have some more adventures, return to India after a long-long
time. Of course, as it so happened some friends were planning on going
to the mountains in Nepal, which meant this was the perfect
opportunity to take off on that traveling adventure.
Sept
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So I took off from work in Sept, visited some dear old friends and
family. Then spend some time hiking, climbing, camping in NH - in
preparation for coming to Nepal - but really I no longer had my
apartment, and though there were many a nice couches with the great
company of friends - I was looking forward to some time in the white
mountains of New Hampshire.
Now:
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Since then I've made it back to India after 17 years, visited some old
friends - reminisced about the old times and been trekking in Nepal
since the beginning of Oct. We just got back from doing the Annapurna
circuit the day before yesterday - tomorrow we're heading out to
Sagarmatha National Park to do some mountaineering and trekking. The
Annapurna trek was spectacular: wandering through small mountain
villages, enjoying magnificeint views of ginormous mountains
(giagantic+enormous - only way to describe them), meeting interesting
people. Tilicho lake at 5000m was probably the highlight of the trek -
it is beautiful, surrounded by tall mountains that you really get to
see up close and personal - you feel like you want to climb right up -
but of course even though they look close, they do not look any
smaller or less formidable.
About the `Lassies in Kathmandu' - well I hadn't been very motivated
to spam you all yet - especially since I wanted to first update my
blog before sending you all a link to it. But then as we were taking a
walk (my friend alex + I), we stopped by at a little place to have
delicious lassies recommended by our friends (Misha + Rita). the
lassies (fresh yogurt drink) with a thick layer of cream topped off
with nuts and raisins were mmm .. mmm .. good. Interestingly enough,
it was a very small operation with two guys selling only lassies -
doing one thing, but doing it well!
They were so good, they inspired me to get this email out before
heading off on our trip in the morning :-) .. my blog:
http://aimlessplanet.blogspot.
So lacking creativity and being a rocket scientist I used
aimlessplanet (aimless `wanderer') for the name since everything else
was taken. The title `How far you can see from here' was a suggestion
from a much more creative friend (phelpse for those who know him).
It'll probably be sparse for another few weeks as I'm heading off in
the morning and I have yet to put up pictures. Hope you're all doing
most excellent as well!
Namaste & Tashi Delek (hello + goodbye in Tibetan),
- jasmine
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