4:53pm
Day 7

Omfg. I’ve gotten Ray’s foot thing and I’m afraid my toe is going to explode. It hurts SO f-ing bad and is getting worse. Ray just came and consoled me that my toe’s not going to explode, fall off, have to be cut off, infect my whole body, or kill me. But I dunno… :/

So I don’t want to say “I’m glad the trip is almost over” cuz I’m not, cuz I know I’ll miss it, but I think my body is. In addition to this toe BS that happened last night, I’ve got some massively painful chafeage going on on my thighs too. And my f-ing head cold is still going on. AGH!

On a brighter note, we just came from a cool little village walk (bought 2 packs of cheese balls for 7 Rs each on the way out) and saw some really cool houses, villagers, chickens with chicks, and even got to try Roxy, Nepali moonshine. I only had a tiny bit to try it because it tasted terrible and I was a little afraid of any local water being on the cup, as we have a looooong bus ride ahead of us to get back to Kathmandu – ~10 hours to Chitwan where most people will be getting off, then I think they said 8 hours to Kathmandu though I thought it only took us 5.5 hours when we went.

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Anyway today was pretty fun, all things considered. I had a terrible nightmare about Luis (random) being a weird stalker killer man, and got up at 6am so me, Maikke, Germaine and Chelsea could go canyoning. I looked around but no one else was there so went back to bed til Ray said “Aren’t you going on your hike?” and when I told him no one else was up he said he thought I was supposed to wake them up so I got back up and called Maikke and she said she still wanted to go. I didn’t know where Chelsea was, which tent, and we saw Germaine but she didn’t look ready or too fussed about going so it was just the two of us. It was fun, we only went as far as the pool. I climbed up the waterfall again because it’s fun and to see the view, but I stupidly got totally stuck.

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It was scary when I ran out of options and all I had left to do was slide down this wall and hope it didn’t F me up too bad.

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It was pretty scary, but to be honest not as bad as that same spot yesterday when I almost got pushed down by the force of the waterfall. That really could potentially have been catastrophic. I really can’t believe we climbed as high as we did the day before. But, since nothing ended worse than my hand being sore since I must have banged it up on my slide down and maybe the hiking aggravated my feet to where they are now…now it was just a fun, crazy adventurous experience (or two).

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At the lunch stop Ray found a HUGE lizard, we think maybe the same kind (only big) as the little copper ones from way back in Mcleod Ganj. Oh and on the hike I saw huge worms with blue…blood maybe?

Oh and yesterday I think I forgot to mention this HUGE wave we went past – it had to be at least 15 ft tall, maybe 20. It was unbelievable. Today, Kalu’s boat flipped in this comparably completely insignificant little wave/hole – they didn’t have enough momentum and after nearly dump-trucking – then recovering – got sucked BACK into it and flipped! It was great. The only bad thing was Dieter got a cut on his finger and was bleeding but he’s ok.

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So now I’m sitting with my feet in an iodine bath, hoping this f-ing thing goes away quickly. Getting our book signed and maybe gonna go drink our pains and troubles away. :)

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