Fast Forward to the Himalaya

Mountains at Sunrise¹

Up to this point, my blog posts have followed, more or less, the same sequence as my travel route. I just finished up with the North Island of New Zealand, and a Christmas spent in Wellington.

Christmas was over five months ago.

Obviously, nothing I've tried during my nine months of travel has prevented me from falling further and further behind in my writing and photo work. I'm going to change it up a bit. I'm going to temporarily skip over the rest of the New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong and Japan. Starting tomorrow, I'm going to go straight into the fifteen days I spent trekking in Nepal back in late March and early April. It will be easier to provide content this way. Because instead of writing things from scratch, I can pull stuff straight out of my journal, thus providing a somewhat cleaned up and expurgated look at the mindset of somebody who spends over two weeks walking in the mountains.

For those that are worried that all accounts of the sex, drugs and rock n' roll will be waylaid between my private journals and the blog: rest assured that there were no drugs to speak of (all the marijuana is grown on the Annapurna Circuit), no sex (high altitude, paper-thin walls in the guest houses, and everybody running around not showering for weeks on end can put quite a dampener on things), and I'm certainly not holding back on my views of music in the high Himalaya. The entries will be cleaned up because the stream-of-consciousness way I tend to jot things in my journal is often barely readable, and they will be expurgated because I'm sure nobody wants to read about my bowel movements.

So enjoy this little fast forward to my time in the region around Mount Everest. This was easily one of the top travel experiences I've had in my life. I'll be back posting about New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong and Japan (hopefully) soon enough.

¹Why Describe In Words What Can Be Done With a Picture Key

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