Onto the Friendship Highway

The crew is heading to Tibet tomorrow. While Kathmandu is nice, we're all looking forward to the mountains again. We'll be riding in a minibus, more than likely it will be dilapidated, to the border of Nepal and Tibet. Oh, and there will be a middle aged French couple, whom we haven't met yet, riding with us. I pity them already. Once across the border, we'll be riding in a "Jip" which will hopefully be a Toyota Land Cruiser left over from the 1970's, and not the 1950's. We'll see. The "Jip" will be our chariot for the next 4 or 5 days on route to Lhasa, the capital city of Tibet. On the way, we'll stop at the famous Rongbok monastery at the foot of Mt. Everest, on the North side. We trekked to the base camp on the south/Nepali side before. The views of Everest are supposed to be even better on the North side, hopefully the weather will be as cooperative as before. The toilets in Tibet are well known to be the absolute worst in the world. Can't wait! I'll take photos of the most heinous, and make a special: "don't click this link at work" page for your viewing pleasure... Maybe.