I bought bus tickets to Lumbini tomorrow. I’m not really that excited to go, but I feel like I should visit it before leaving Nepal.  The bus ride is about 8 hours which I’m also not excited about.  The thought of staying here in Pokhara doesn’t really appeal to me either, though.  I’m going to make the most of it.  I’ll only be there for two nights and then I’ll take the bus back.  It should be ok.

I can’t finish up my Indian visa in Pokhara which means I’ll have to go to Kathmandu to do that.  It also means I’ll end up staying in Kathmandu for 3 days at least while I’m getting that processed.  It really would have been much easier to just get it taken care of while I’m here.  Such is life, I suppose.

I’m going to spend just a minute packing and then go to bed.  I have to be at the bus pretty early which isn’t going to be a lot of fun.  From past experience, I know the bus rides are much less enjoyable when I’ve gotten too little sleep.  It’s quite hard to do anything more than a jerky nap while on the bus.

I really am looking forward to getting home.  I still haven’t made any decisions as to whether I’ll do another trek or just take off.  I’m tempted to take off, but we’ll see.

H has been annoying me.  He sent me a dick picture of a guy he was planning to hook up with tonight. It doesn’t annoy me too much when he tells me about these things when I’m around him, but to just send me a picture like that is definitely crossing a line.  I asked him not to do it again.  The thing is, I’m lonely too.  I don’t want to get all passive aggressive about it, but I’m really not sure I’ll even try to hang out with him much more before leaving.  I think he’s a good guy, but I just don’t want to get sucked into that black hole of emotion anymore.  It’s not super fun.

I should really just do one thing at once. I started looking at flights to Delhi from Kathmandu.  The extra baggage fee on the first one I looked at is pretty outrageous – nearly the amount of the flight itself.  This annoys me.  It also concerns me that the baggage limit looks really low compared to what I’m used to.  Looks like I’ll have to start abandoning stuff again… Blergh.  I think I pretty much got rid of everything excess when I left Istanbul.  I’ll need to do some more research and take a look at the stuff I do have.  I’m pretty sure there are a few things I can probably dump, but I also was hoping to buy some souvenirs for people back home.  It’ll all workout though.  I can always call the airlines to double check the baggage requirements.  I think I can get this figured out.  Thankfully I don’t need to do it right now.

Gratitude List:

A relaxing massage

A friendly face in Lakeside

Finishing up what I’d like to see in Nepal