{"id":436,"date":"1993-03-17T15:22:31","date_gmt":"1993-03-17T22:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/?p=436"},"modified":"2009-05-24T15:29:43","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T22:29:43","slug":"preparing-to-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"Preparing to Trek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal<\/w:View> <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning \/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas \/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false<\/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false<\/w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false<\/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables \/> <w:SnapToGridInCell \/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct \/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules \/> <w:DontGrowAutofit \/> <\/w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:BrowserLevel> <\/w:WordDocument> <\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState=\"false\" LatentStyleCount=\"156\"> <\/w:LatentStyles> <\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><span class=\"mceItemObject\"   classid=\"clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D\" id=ieooui><\/span>\n<mce:style><!  st1\\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } --><\/p>\n<p><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><strong>Pokhara, Nepal &#8211; <\/strong>Up at 5 a.m. to see Rich off on his journey. I told him that I would leave him a note at the hotel and another one in Kathmandu telling him where to find me. He got on his bus to start his trek and I wandered up to the restaurant to write and watched the sun come up and light up the mountains. I rented a bike and went to the lakeside to sort everything out with Ram regarding our departure the next morning. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">When that was done, I biked the 5 to 6 kilometers up to the opposite side of old Pokhara. This is what the town looked like before tourism and electricity arrived and there was a marked difference. It looks like a mountain village, Squaw Valley, California kept springing to mind. Narrow streets with your basic two-storey buildings. I really did get the feeling I was in Lake Tahoe with the mountains rising up behind the buildings, but this was not Tahoe. This was Nepal, the tiny mountain kingdom. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">After a long ride, I went back to the hotel and had a beer, which floored me. I slept away most of the day and woke up at dusk, just in time to ride into town and get the backpack I would be using on the trek from Ram. I picked up a pair of wool gloves for 70 rupees, figured I might need a pair of those at 3000 meters.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Pokhara, Nepal &#8211; Up at 5 a.m. to see Rich off on his journey. I told him that I would leave him a note at the hotel and another one in Kathmandu telling him where to find me. He got on his bus to start his trek and I wandered up to the restaurant [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nepal","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}