Namaste.

Tomorrow TJ and I leave for trekking. We get on the bus at 6:30am and head to Besishwar - a lovely 8-9 hour trip. We'll just spend the night there, and get ready for the trekking excursion to begin. Doing the Annapurna Circuit takes about 16-19 days...and we are tagging on the Annapurna Base Camp, another 10 days or so. I cannot wait to be surrounded by enormous mountains, on sunny days, sweating and getting in shape, while enjoying the magnificent aspect of Nepal.
Especially after teaching and having such a routine at school and at home, then the gym, and random things like going to India, it is going to be so nice to get into the routine of trekking some of the highest mountains. Thorung La pass gets to 17, 800 feet...the highest I will be ever, for now.
The only thing that is really frustrating about doing this trek this time of year, THIS year is the elections. We will be in the mountains on election day - I will be going crazy!!! I doubt there will be any access to news, the internent or anything like that...so I will be going nuts for about a week.
GO OBAMA!!!!! GO DOWN CRAZY PALIN!!!!!!!!!!
So, you may not hear from me for a while. But know, and trust, that we are safe and having a great time. (I have been 'praying' to the anti-blister god. I mean, they have to have an anti-blister god since there are 33.3 million gods in the Hindu religion, right?)
Much love...