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Two weeks in the Kathmandu Valley

After two weeks in the Kathmandu Valley, I arrived in Birganj on a foggy, damp Thursday morning. I stepped off a bus that I had taken from Hetauda, about an hour and a half north of Birganj and as far as the Peace Corps jeep had taken me the day before.
I had spent the night [...]

Vacation Annapurna, part 2

Days 4–5, Pokhara to Ghorapani
I was in debt and getting the hell out of Pokhara. Every day we’d been in Pokhara we’d done little else (especially myself) than run errands and try and get our bags together.
Once again, Andrew out did me as the lightest packer. All he’d brought was a small, child’s backpack that [...]