The Final Descent: The Car Trip of Dust

What is up everyone? I’m back with another blog post for you today about the ride down the mountain we have been staying for weeks on. I know what I said in the last post about yesterday being the final hike down, but that was all walking down the mountain and not driving due to it being so long. Today, we just swiftly drove down and viewed the scenery all around us instead of hiking miserably and getting dirty. It was amazing after what we had just gone through😌. Our day thankfully started off differently than all of our other days. We put on our shoes(we were already dressed in our other clothes because it was so cold the other night. We slept at four thousand nine hundred meters(almost sixteen thousand feet in altitude) metres at the high base camp) and headed down to a nice, little cafe that was right next to our hotel. I forgot what it was called, but I had an awesome chocolate brownie there that filled me up from the start. After the meal, we acknowledged dearly how much of a good time we had and thought of how this moment changed our lives forever. Well, at least for Troy, Ella, and I because Ofer had already done it multiple times. For me, it made me experiment and embrace new challenges. We also said goodbye to Leia and her dad before we departed. They are really nice people and if you are reading this, then I want to thank you for being good friends on this trek and good luck for you. It really was fun to know and meet new people and it was arguably the best part of this whole thing. We all got into the car after Ella toke two books and started to read and we began the six hour drive, which turned into twelve. As I usually do, I will give my thoughts about this and then specifics. The drive was NOT horrible, but there were two major factors that made me not like it: The uncomfortable seats and the dust that kept getting in. I was switching seats whenever we stopped and I ended up in the worst postures. I was uncomfortable 80% of the way and secondly, the windows were open most of the time and thus dust flew in large clouds, causing us to cough and even got Troy sick😱😭!!! Evil dust! Aside from those two things however, the ride went pretty smooth aside from the bumpy road and the fact that it was double the time that it was supposed to be. We saw fantastic scenery including a really big waterfall that we took pictures at. We passed by many villages with happy people going through life. It looked very peaceful to just enjoy nature and each other. We stopped for lunch about half way in and I had a burger and fries that tasted nice. It was a lot better than Bob Marley because it was chicken and fresh. We drove for the next few hours until reaching Pokhara, the city where we would sleep for the first time in weeks. We went to a hotel called Snowland and finally got clean beds and rooms to ourselves😆👼🎶👏👏!!! It was great and after getting all settled in, we went to a restaurant called Roudhouse Cafe, where I had a pizza a million times greater than Bob Marley. Today was amazing and it was a good start after a long climb.

(markers left by Ganesh. See if you can spot them if you come do this!)