Interesting people

When I was in the airport in Dehli, on my way to Nepal, I was getting frustrated because our flight was delayed a couple of hours. There was another woman sitting there that looked like a nice person. We started talking and she in medical school at the University of Minnesota, and she is doing her residency rotation in Asia. By this point, she had already worked in Thailand and visited Vietnam for fun. She was now visiting Nepal for about 16 days before going to India for her next rotation. She said that she had set it all up on her own.

On the flight from Nepal to Dehli, I spoke to a woman sitting a seat away from me who also asked for the non-spicy meal option. She was from New York and she said she was traveling alone because she left her friend back in Nepal. She and her friend spent 5 days in Nepal, and during that time the friend met a guy from Australia. He went away for a day to go on a different trek, but he came back early. He told the girl, “I knew in my heart that I was going in the wrong direction.” They then both changed their travel plans and are trying to find a way to be together. It's the kinds of story that you read in books or see in movies.

When I was in the Dehli airport, I got sick. I was looking around for someone that I could sit with just so that someone could keep an eye on me. I noticed an older woman sitting on her own who was on my flight from Nepal. She was very friendly and kind, even though I am a complete stranger. She said that she hopes there will be someone out there helping her son when he is in need. It turns out that her 25-year-old son was teaching in Nepal for the past 6 months. He also plays the guitar and has already found places to perform in Kathmandu. That would be something fun to put on a resume.

Finally, thank you to Miton and his family for such a wonderful trip! I was there for about 5 days, and I wish I could have spent ten more days exploring the country.

I've added a few photos from the short flight from Pokhara to Kathmandu on Yeti Airlines to give you another view of Nepal. For fun I also included a couple photos of kids that I saw in Pokhara. One is of a kid at a temple holding caged birds that he will let fly as an offering to the gods. The other photo is of boys joking with each other on the sidewalk. Do you see the horns?