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03 Jun 2009 22:51
Updated: 6/1/2009 Day 62 (June 1)
Today will be last shopping in the thousands of shops in Tamel district of Kathmandu and at 4 pm we will leave the hotel for the airport. I suspect this will be the last addition to this blog, although when I return I will review all the equipment I used and give it a rating. I will also add lots of new photos and many short video I took. Thanks to all of you who have monitored this journey. I hope it has inspired some of you to try some new and perhaps difficult things. For others, I hope that I have challenged you to contribute to our Cytometry-for-life Project.
Day 61 (May 31)
Today I managed to get out of bed late (a la stomach) and walked to the NWA office and changed my flight tickets. They only take cash here for such things - amazing really. Anyway, it took 90 minutes to change, but I am on a flight out of here at 7:10 pm on June 1st. I found out today that tomorrow is a national strike day - whatever that means! After 60 days of an expedition, believe me, it is really time to get back to normal life. It has been an amazing experience - something that is hard to describe really. Clearly you have to go through a lot of hard and difficult times to reach some goals. This was one where the road was rough and tough and very, very long. You don't climb Everest in a week! Frankly, it still has not hit me that I managed to summit the highest mountain in the world. It just happened and hopefully in a while, the impact of this incredibly hard journey will hit me.
Day 60 (May 30)
Today at 6 am we were all at the Lukla airport eager to get back to Kathmandu. The flight arrived on time and a lucky 15 (including me) got onto the first flight. It literally took 10 minutes for them to unload the flight and load us on. We landed in Kathmandu about 45 minutes later and went to the Tibet Hotel. Today I had a full breakfast in Lukla before leaving and a full breakfast at the Hotel when we arrived in Kathmandu. Then we went to Mikes Cafe and had another full breakfast. In the evening we went to a nice restaurant and had some very rich food. Well not surprisingly, I suffered from overeating with a very distended stomach. It had shrunk so much, that eating all this good rich food was too much and most the night and next day I suffered miserably!
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