Annapurna: Days tweleve - sixteen

Kagneni, Marpha, Ghasa, Tatopani, Pokhara

Up sucks, down kinda sucks too but as the air becomes thick and full and oxygen heavy my lungs rejoice and expand in happiness.

So, we made it over the pass and it's all easy from here. Easy, but hard on the feet. For some reason Nepali people think it's a great idea to make "roads" out of sharp-side-up, jagged rocks that make your ankles roll, your stick get stuck, you're feet fall over themselves and just nothing good could ever come of them.

We gladly came out of potato and powdered milk land and into the fresh apples and cabbage land. Sometimes, you just take what you can get. Along with fresh food we also got... dun dun dun daaaaa.... a shower! a HOT shower! I won't lie, pre-pass, I hadn't cleaned myself in over eight days. I just don't like bathing with a bucket and ice cold water. Delights such as fields of marijuana plants, hot springs, Everest beer, warm nights, distilleries, and chicken sandwiches were all part of the more popular Jompson trek, or our way down. I could tell you more but it would just be about walking, more walking, and oh yes, yes, more walking. The timing was just right we're ready to be done, and I don't plan on walking this far, for this long, or this high for a long long time.