We made it back from our second trek today, and we are now warming up and eating Indian food in Pokhara, the travel base for the mountains of central Nepal.

We both had a wonderful time and managed to stay healthy. In the time since our last posting, we hiked up to the Annapurna Base Camp, from which we had a wonderful view of the 360-degree amphitheatre of mountains. The weather was perfect while we were up there, though it’s now become unseasonably cloudy.

We have now made arrangements to leave on December 5 to visit Chitwan National Park, which is in the jungle parts of the Nepali flatlands. We will spend three days there doing the tourist thing, and then fly back to Kathmandu on December 8. After three final days there, we will fly back on December 12 through Singapore and Hong Kong to San Francisco, arriving the morning of the 13th.

I’m afraid that because of technical problems, I won’t be able to post any pictures or detailed information from our trek until a day or two after we get back to the US. Any postings from now through then will only be to keep you up to date on our progress.