It finally stopped raining yesterday afternoon, and today dawned clear though a little foggy. And the satellite photo shows all the rain moving to the east and clear skies all the way behind. So it looks like the monsoon is finally over, two weeks later than usual. The washer man in this picture looks like he’s happy to dry out, too.

There were no flights to Juphal today, though, because the mountain airstrip is still muddy. But with a full day of good weather, the airplane people say it’s 100% chance we will fly tomorrow morning.

This morning we moved back to the Hotel Batika, the “four-star” hotel that appears to be the only place with a room that has both air conditioning and hot water. They also have the best food in town. The manager showed up with a bicycle rickshaw, the main transportation in town, and used it to transport our bags. We elected to walk, since it’s not far and we need the exercise.

But now we need to move again because the situation has changed on where we will fly from. As of this morning, we had a 7-seat chartered plane waiting for us at Nepalgunj airport where we are now, but I just got a call from Kathmandu to say that we need to move to Surkeet, an airport 3 hours away by bus. So I need to finish this quickly and pack to move hotels once again.