Two things I fear I am not.
But oh well, I’m reminded of the time my friend Bridget and I hiked up Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, and decided to do so on somewhat of a whim.
As she and I looked around at all the trekkers decked out in their aluminum walking poles, their broken-in boots, their shiny new gortex jackets, she turned to me and said,
”So I’m pretty sure I’m the only one on this mountain hiking in Old Navy pink linen capris”.
It’ll all be fine. Thank God I double checked about my trusty Salomon cross-trainers being enough for the hike. My friend Ramu, a trekking guide, looked at them and replied, “You are making a 5,500m (~17,000ft) pass. You will trek in snow for four days. You need hiking boots.”
Good to know.
For anyone familar with the area, I am doing the Annapurna Circuit Trek, continuing possibly to the Annapurna Base Camp. I will be somewhere up in the mountains on my birthday, the big 25, and I find it fitting, considering last year I was somewhere in the backcountry in Moab, Utah around the same time.
I’ll write more in late April, with pictures and stories galore. Until then, all y’all should decide what should be the next adrenaline activity I do in Nepal.
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So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I’m a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald… striking. So, I’m on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga… gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he’s gonna stiff me. And I say, “Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.” And he says, “Oh, uh, there won’t be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.” So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.
Gunga-galunga!
Love you,
Shay
Wow, look at those photos–the only place you can have a better view of mountains is North Adams, MA!!
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