Goodbye, Kathmandu

Yesterday was a lazy day.  We mostly stayed inside and watched movies since it was rainy.  And besides, my impatience with tour guides has extended to impatience with salespeople, rickshaw drivers, taxi drivers, restauranteurs, and those teenagers who continually ask if we smoke weed (we turned down 5 in the space of 2 blocks the other day).  Yeah, it's time to head somewhere a little less in-your-face than Thamel.  So we'll go to Delhi.  

In Delhi we plan on a lovely stay in the transit room of the airport.  That will be the extent of our accommodations for tonight.  Then tomorrow we have a flight to Singapore, and then tomorrow night's accommodations are the lovely seats in coach on the overnight flight to Sydney.  Throw in the fact that we have no hot water in our hotel at the moment, and we're looking at the next 2-1/2 days with no shower or bed.

Ah but then we return to serene Sydney, where the air is clear, the water is safe, and everyone says "no worries" instead of "you're welcome."  (Well, the water isn't safe if you're swimming, and in fact there's plenty to worry about, what with the sharks and crocodiles and jellyfish.)  A three night stay in Sydney will be just enough before I'm ready to get home.

We'd like to return here sometime soon.  I'm not too keen on two more weeks in Kathmandu, but a trip to Pokhara and a trek of some kind would be a great experience.  Melissa's interested in returning for medical work that involves more than just observation--a career in international health may be in her future.  So for now, we're signing off for a couple days as we likely won't have internet until Wednesday.

P.S. Our last activities before leaving for the airport included a shot of the Sabres hats near a buddhist stupa and a typical nepalese marketplace, as requested by Victor.