Tuesday, March 22, 2011
4 Days and Couting
I am at the “eleventh hour” and in my typical last minute style am just getting some things accomplished that I should have been doing earlier. I am doing more research on Nepal. I have the Lonely Planet Book and have been debating about taking the relatively heavy tome. I discovered, through Jamie, that I could download the chapters I needed into my Kobo reader. This was easy. This got me started. I downloaded my Outlook contacts to pdf and put on the reader. I have all the correspondence for the tour company, my medical and insurance info, snaps of ID and credit cards. Just in case, I created a folder called Nepal with all these downloads and put it on a thumb drive. All my info reduced to a few ounces. That matters when the porter will only carry 28 pounds and the rest is on my back.
I want very little on my back! I recall a recent hike/snowshoe up to Quandary Peak. Even though I only had spare layers, food and water, I felt like there were bricks in there. That was only at 14+K so when we are at 16K or 18K I need very little.
My trip has several purposes. First of course is fun and adventure, next is Flat Stanley who is my traveling partner and then it is my chocolate! As most of you know, Denver Love Chocolate is one of my sponsors of this trip and I am going to be eating Xocai chocolate to the top… or rather to the base J.
I will talk about Flat Stanley later.. I am in the Seattle airport just about to board a shuttle to Suncadia.
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