Thirty-seven hours to Nepal

Finally in Kathmandu, beautiful view of the mountains beyond a home flying prayer flags at rooftop. We're now meeting our team who are beginning to assemble here. The travel here was not seamless and we had a few bumps on the road getting here.

First, was before even leaving NJ as Nancy was 15 minutes down the road to meet Christy and realized that she forgot the credit cards for the trip and had to head back home to collect them.

After a 15-hour flight to Mumbai, we had an overnight layover. Since we had India visas, we left the airport for a modern, clean airport hotel. Hired a driver for 3 hours, 11pm-2am to explore the beach on the Arabian Sea and then refreshments at the Marriott there. What a contrast between the beach area for locals and the hotel, exclusive for foreigners only.

Next morning another bump as our driver took us to the wrong airport. With a great deal of angst and rushing around, we organized a "fast" driving cab to get this corrected. OK, all is well, we made it!

Arriving at Kathmandu, we waited long for our luggage, supposedly checked through from Newark. Our luggage did not get here. Last bump, we hope. Have to return to the airport next day (a 2-hour round trip) to collect luggage which hopefully, will arrive on next morning's flight.

Photo shows view of traffic here in the city of Kathmandu: everything moves slow, with vehicles so close that they are almost touching, and then, watch out and avoid locals cows who have right-of-way in roadway.