The usual 6:45am wake up call, clean up a bit, pack all my things together then go for breakfast…this is probably the first routine I’ve had since I started this blog over a year and a half ago!!! As usual, it’s cooooold!!! and it looks like snow in the sky again!! Dammmm Internet, what’s this world coming to when you can’t believe what you read on the net??? Today we hike to Loboche, about 4hrs away, nothing too exciting here except fro this massive rock pile we have to climb!!! Low cloud in the sky, so the views aren’t that great…but who has time for the views when you’re huffin and puffin up a mountain…

Still managed to get off some pics of the surroundings...

Gotta watch out for these little bastards....they come at you from all angles...

At the top of the massive rock garden towards Loboche, there are monuments for all the fallen climbers of Everest

Here we are!! Home for the night in Loboche...

It’s friggin cold!!!! Woke up this morning and it was snowing outside…and my legs are killing me…who ever said April was a good time to do an Everest trek??  Oh, I think I read that on the Internet…. To make matters worse, none of these lodges where we are staying have any heat (actually none of them do…) so you have to pretty much sleep fully clothed in your sleeping bag with blankets on top….brrrrrr, not the most luxurious of accommodations , but what do you expect for 3500m up on the side of a mountain….ok, ok enough complaining….

Even when it's a little cloudy out, it's still pretty impressive!!

I'm gonna send this one to the person who said the Everest trek is great in April...

Today we leave Pengboche (3960m) for Dingboche (4400m)….to help combat altitude sickness, they recommend not gaining more than 500m per day at these levels (this is for us average tourist folks, not the Nepalese mountain people) and as you can see, that is what we are doing…Uzol (my guide) figured it would take us about 4 hrs…we did it in 3…..guess I’m starting to get used to this trekking stuff?? We arrived at Dingboche around 11:00am, settled in and got ready to spend the night…..did I mention that it was friggin cold??? Started snowing in the afternoon and by evening, there were a few centimeters down….
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Main street Dingboche...what a happening little village!!!

Me 'n the lodge in Dingboche...

Tomorrow would normally be our rest day to acclimatize, but I’m feeling pretty good now and I do not want to sit around Dingboche for the whole day ( as you can see from the pic, there’s not a lot to do there)….so tomorrow we leave for Loboche, spend the night and then it’s Everest base camp!!!!

7:00am meet for breakfast, out the door by 8:00….. Today we have about 5-6 hrs hiking (or trekking as they call it here) which will take us to Tengboche (famous Tibetan Buddhist monastery, also the highest at 3860 m.) where we will stop for lunch and then onto Pengboche where we will stay for the night.

7:00 am in Namche Bazzar...this is a common occurrence at all of our stops...if it's not cloudy

This seems to be how we start everyday....that's my porter there takin off like a rabbit

Tengboche Buddhist monastery..3860 m .elevation

The elevation gain will be from 3440 m (Namche Bazzar) to 3960 m (Pengboche)….now whenever I hear “elevation gain” that’s just  fancy words for “hills” (not my favorite word right now)…so today we will have to climb about 500 m and guess what??  90 percent of the elevation gain seems to happen right at the end of the hike! ok maybe I’m being a little dramatic, but there are a heck of a lot of steep switchbacks going up to TyengBoche which is near the end of the end…anyhow, I managed to crawl my way up (and I do mean CRAWL!!) to our final destination for the day… I gotta tell ya, this definitely wasn’t what I expected, I figured it would just be a simple walk in the park… but there’s no turning back now (although I could call a helicopter in to take me out???).
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One of the many suspension bridges to be crossed...this one is only about 100 ft high

It's an unwritten rule "he who has the biggest horns, has right of way"

I know I’m throwin all these village names out at you and they really don’t mean anything to you so I’m gonna try an post a map of everything so you can get an idea of just what I am talking about….

Not too much going on here, we have today in Namche as an acclimation day. Not too much planned except for a short hike around the village and then time for me to update this blog!!!

Local "city" map....10 minutes and you have seen the whole village

Above Namche is an airport that is rarely used, i'm standing right on the runway....we also got a little snow last night

Me an my buddy Everest...there's the destination!!! well sort of...

That’s it for now….time to get some rest. Tomorrow we head for Tengboche…..

Apparently, because this whole trek is so popular, there are “Tea Houses” along the whole route. You can pretty much find anything you need as the locals are there to oblige…for a price…from what I understand, everything gets pricer the further along you get, which does make sense as everything that is brought in is done by Sherpa or mule….a lot of work….The Tea Houses are very Spartan, but it saves the need to camp and you can get a nice hot meal and in western terms, very inexpensive…

Day 2 begins on the trail.....

We hit the road, err’ I mean trail, about 8am…weather looked ok and not too cold (maybe 7 degrees at the time). The trail was pretty much like before, some ups, some downs and generally not too bad…until I found out that in the last 2.5 hrs we had to gain about 300 meters in elevation ( about 1100 feet) …picture the Grouse Grind for 2.5 hrs…it was brutal!!! The only thing that kept me going was the fact that Uzol had guided an 85 year old lady last year and she had made it!! I kinda call BS, but that’s what he said….so I continued on, slowly with lots of breaks, we finally made it to Namche Bazzar, I could barely walk after that climb……This place is the village of all villages and serves as a major junction for all kinds of treks and expeditions, pretty much anything you need, you can find it here, coffee shops, mountain gear stores, bakeries, pizza places, sports bars….anything you could want…the elevation is about 3400 meters (over 11000 feet) and this is where we would stay for two nights to acclimatize.

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This is why Uzol did not recommend eting the meat....it's all carried up by sherpa and is not fresh....

My attemp at being a photographer....if you want a copy, gimme a shout...hahahaha

And this is where hell begins....2.5, maybe even 3 hours of this....and there is more to come!!!

The day has finally come, my guide Uzol, (not how you spell it but this will do) and I depart the hotel early in the morning to catch a flight to Lukla which is where the actual trekking begins. Its only about a 30 minute flight but it takes you right into the Himalayans…according to Uzol, the Lukla airport is one of the most dangerous in the world and he still gets a little nervous when flies into it, he says “check it out on YouTube”….Great, thanks for telling me…as my guide, shouldn’t he be telling how great this trip is gonna be and how exciting it is? Not “we may crash on this flight”….actually it didn’t really bother me and when we landed, I realized why this place was so dangerous…because the airport is in the mountains, the runway is very short and it is built on and angle, (not sure how many degrees, but it looks pretty steep) so when u come in for landing, the pilot has to land uphill!! (I’m not a pilot, but I’m guessing that’s not the safest way to do it)…anyhow, by reading this blog, you know we made it safe and sound (although a little bumpy along the way).

Airport check in counter...pretty basic, but it works...

Here's our ride...about what I expected...

Kinda gives you the size of the plane...almost shoulder to shoulder, reminds me of the flight from Vancouver to Guangzho

You can't really tell from the pic but the runway is severely sloping up!!!

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Here we go!!! the trekking begins

One of the many suspension bridges we will be crossing...

After about 2.5 hrs, this is our first stop....home sweet home!!

It's pretty basic but it beats the heck out of camping!!!

I had almost forgotten how crazy and chaotic driving in these Asian countries can be….as part of my Everest package. They threw in a city tour of Kathmandu with a private driver which I did today. Donny (the driver) came by in the morning and we were off to the first stop, Boudhanath Stupa, which as it sounds, is a bhudist temple and fairly close by….that is when you don’t factor in the traffic…the traffic in Kathmandu is nuts!! Everyone fighting for whatever inches they can get, motorcycles squeezing in any and wherever they can and roads with pot holes the size of Grand canyon makes for one heck of a combination….It amazes me that a city that is one tenth the size of Bangkok seems to have twice as much smog… Anyhow, back to Boudhanath Stupa, there was some sort festival going on but with donny’s broken English/Nepalese, that’s about all I could make out ( I just did the smile and nod thing as he explained everything)…all I know is that there were a lot of people throwin rice and rubbing a lot (the statues that is)….I did learn one thing though, always walk around the shrines clockwise… 30 minutes later we were off to Guari Ghat, which you may have guessed, is another temple….of the Hindu variety. Pictures Another 30 minutes there and then back in the car to the next stop….you guessed right again!!Another temple…don’t get me wrong, I respect peoples beliefs and I understand that these temples are very important to them, but temple after temple after temple gets a little old…so as Donny made our way to the next stop, I told him to just drop me off and I would make my own way back to the hotel…he seemed ok with that as he got the rest of the day off and I gave him a decent sized tip for his troubles…

View from the driver's seat...these guys drive about 3' from each other, lots of horns and no signals....scary!!

Temple at Boudhanath Supa....everyone is walking around the dome "rubbing" it...throwin some rice as well

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At Gauri Ghat Temple a body is be prepared to be creamated...

Few crazy lookin dudes I had to get a pic with...

I have a lot more pics, but the internet sucks here and I can’t stand waiting….

I wasn’t looking forward to the flight…left YVR at 12:30pm and after one stopover in Guangzhou, arrived in Kathmandu at 10:30pm the next day…and to make matters worse, the plane was fully booked on the Vancouver\Guangzhou leg (13hrs) and I was constantly battling this tiny elderly Chinese lady for the arm rest….she put up a dam good fight!!! One saving grace about this whole flight thing was that I had read online about how bad China Southern was and that Guangzhou airport was a sh*t show…well, the both of them weren’t that bad…China Southern was no different than any other discount airline, if you have flown Allegiant Air, it’s the same, except no one speaks english….Guangzhou Airport was great!! Smooth sailing through the whole transit routine…just goes to show that not everything on the net is true…

I ‘ve had a full day in Kathmandu now just trying to get my bearings….I’m staying in the Thamel area which are which basically caters to tourists and backpackers and kinda reminds me of Thailand with the narrow dirt roads lined with vendors selling their wares shouting out the standard “c’mon in, it’s free to look!!”…I must say though they are not quite as aggressive as the Mexicans….

Main Street Thamel....gotta watch your toes from all the motorcycles zipping in and out...

Backpacking store all over the place...if your looking for climbing gear, you can find it here for cheap!!! Although I can not vouch for the quality...It's all branded but they are all made in China or Nepal.

hmmmmm.....which one doesn't belong????

Why do they need a shower in a teen dance club???

The requisite wild dog hanging around the streets....there's several hundred of his buddies kicking around too

As for the food section of this blog…..Because of Nepal’s geographical location between India, Tibet and China there is a whole mix of cuisines readily available  and arrarently it’s supposed to be pretty authentic!!! Having said this, everything is available from pizza, hamburgers, pasta, steaks, you name it…..one thing I haven’t seen so far though are fast food chains !!! no McDonald’s, Pizza hut or KFC anywhere…..as you would expect, food is pretty cheap here, so eventually I want to get to try everything…..

Tibetan Momos (just like pot stickers with a spicy meat filling) and chicken and flat noodle soup...it all tasted ok, but was a little bland for my liking, had to spice it up with a little hot sauce!!

One last thing….I also booked a trek to go to Everest Base Camp (EBC) today, it was a little more than I expected, but it will basically be a private tour with my own guide and sherpa…It’ll be 14 days on the mountain and I leave friday morn….more on this as the trek begins….

Wow, its seems like ages since I last dropped an entry in here…..Ha, probably cause I really haven’t gone anywhere since South America last fall (small jaunts to Vegas and Palm Springs don’t count cause nobody wants to hear about how much money I lose and how bad my golf game is….). Well, that’s about to end… the time has come again for another little adventure…destination, Kathmandu in Nepal and a trek to Everest Base Camp with a little Vietnam thrown in “just because” ( I love that phrase “just because”, it covers everything and you don’t really need to explain it)….the plan is 3 The properties and working modules of Generic Zyban has been levitra free samples proved in a recent study by Dr. It operates by creating a vacuuming impact viagra in india that brings bloodstream into your erectile organ. This medicine is available in various dosage forms like sildenafil 100mg canada 100mg,150 mg and 200mg. Herbal remedies- tab viagra Chandraprabha bati, Aswagandharishta, Bhringaraja ras, Shri gopal tail, Shilajith gold, Aswagandharishta, Bhringaraj ras, Makaradhwaj vati, Swarna Bhasma, Kaminividrawan ras, Pushpdhanwa ras, Stimulex+ and Lakshadi oil. weeks in Nepal, one week in Vietnam (haven’t really decided where in “nam” yet, so if you have any suggestions, let’s hear’em!)…All packed and ready, today I depart on a grueling 23hr flight to Nepal and begin “Kenny’s walk to Everest” (kinda sounds like a charity thing)…..

On a side note, the name of this blog is “Two Wheels to Nowhere” and it seems like it’s been “Two Wings to Nowhere”….don’t think I haven’t noticed!!! Well that’s gonna be remedied this May/June when I finally hop on the bike again and depart on my trip to Alaska (hopefully with some riding partners too)….so game on!!!! back to the blog!!!!