Judy Ann

Thanks. I tried to post a brand new trip report, but the way the forum is set up won't allow it. It has an embedded link to my photos. I guess the webmaster is afraid I'll post porn. Who knows. Maybe I won't be posting anything after all. :-) DK

I didn't see a side trip into tibet on this guide service but others do have them. It would be awesome to go into Lhasa for a day or two. Considering the air fare to get to that part of the world, the side trips are miniscule. I would want to cram as much into the trip as I could.

Too late for this year, it would have to be next at least. Prime time is late Sept, Oct, and early Nov, from what I hear. Not sure when Elyse would be able to go. Our other friends from KY are partially retired and could go anytime IF they decide they want to. I don't think any of our younger bunch could escape that long.

That's about what I figured and definitely a possibility. I'll have to check with work and see how long I can be away. Three weeks shouldn't be a problem, but I'd need to take more for this journey! :-) I would need to head West to get acclimated on the way. How soon do you plan to go?

Right now, $4000 for a month should be oodles, but prices change both up and down so fast. 1,300 for the trek, 1700-1800 air fair, 900-1000 for tips, extra meals, souveniers, etc. I have seen the airfare go from 900-3600 and back during the 4-5 years I have been watching. But the 900 was during the political era.

The trek fee is from pick up at airport to drop at airport, 15 nights in the tea houses, 3 nights in hotels, meals and porters to carry the stuff and the shuttles to and from the hike for 12??. Can't remember the exact numbers. We have to buy our own meals on the layover days in Kat and Pokhara. Also, the air fare could be much cheaper giving the 3 +/- days option which would increase days in Katmandu at own expense. But as of last week, $4000 would be plenty. There are also many, many tour operators with different rates. Also, if we went as a group, we would have to decide on options, such as side trips into Tibet, river rafting, etc.

Judy, you mentioned Inca trail. That is a topic on our table but this one is higher on the list.
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Airsoft guns are those bb gun-type-things that shoot little plastic pellets. Some of them are quite elaborate replicas of military weapons. If you go to youtube, there are a whole bunch of videos on the subject (I had to check and see what the heck he was talking about). I'm pretty sure he's a young-un, as I can't imagine an adult getting excited about guns that go pfft, pfft, pfft

Never heard of him. I don't get airsoft thing either. I'm guessing he's about 12 or 14.

Pretty brutal to the Airsoft kid...

Thank you Judy. Keith was just one of those guys that worked hard and played hard. A successful farmer, rancher who always had time to haul boyscouts into the wilderness, national ski patrolman, scuba diver, taught ballroom dancing in his own studio, WWII navy vet, etc. etc. To see a man like that go down to the point of totally incapacitated and still live was heartbreaking. He has been in hospice care for nearly a year so we all felt it was a blessing for him that he finally could escape. He was 89. If I see myself headed down that road, it will be time for one last backpacking trip with peanut butter smeared on my pack and heading for grizzly country. (just joking on that part. Grandma keeps the peanut butter under lock and key.)