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6/23/07Video Uploaded - a short, dumb video of us driving down the dusty road from Everest Base Camp to the border town of Zhangmu.  The funny thing is our driver's gloves (and watching him flip off the truck driver) and the cool Tibetan pop tunes...Once we reached the monastery and dropped the kid off, the snow had subsided and it was just bleak and grey and drizzly out.  We drove back the way we came all the way to Tingri and had lunch at the dive place that we had stayed a couple…

it's Nepal, Why Not!

Delhi to Jakarta and everywhere in between...

Kathmandu - Khokana - Bungmati - Panauti - Dhulikhel - Nargarkot - Bhaktapur - Kathmandu - Lhasa (Barkhor & Jokhang, Drepung & Nechung, Norbulingka & Potala, Ganden & Sera) - Yumbalagang - Samye - Chim-Puk - Gyantse - Shigatse - Sakya - Tashi Dzom - Mt. Everest Basecamp - Nyalam - Kathmandu - Patan - Kathmandu. Full travel journal & pictures: http://www.edsander.com/travel/nepaltibet/

After all the sign up procedures everyone got back to just chilling out, have some wine, a beer, whatever. It was like a celebration of being at a manageable altitude again, and we actually had decent amounts of oxygen again. Someone had been saying that when you come back down from extreme altitude you can handle your drink so much better. We were all sloshed by 7pm. Yeh by dinner time anyone who was happy to head down that road was already drunk. By 9pm everyone had fetched their mp3 play…