Dear Everyone
Greetings from 25 Oak Drive, Chico, CA :-)
We have been home in Chico since noon on Thursday 041912.
We began our trip home Tuesday April 17 with breakfast with Maisie and Sky
at the hotel followed by efficient transport to the airport in KTM with Jawane
in a luxurious Toyota Corolla taxi. Placing ourselves into the
competent hands of Thai airlines, we arrived at LAX Tuesday at 7:30 PM PDT for
an overnight of happy cuddling and snoozing in a QUEEN SIZE BED for four hours
before being whisked to SFO by United, then bussed to Napa into the welcoming
hugs of Dean Donaldson, his son Matt, and Matt's husband Steve
Kyriakis. They took us to the Bouchon Bakery in Yountville for
coffee and French macaroons before delivering us to the Donaldson's home in
Calistoga. [left to right below are Dean, Dick, moi, Steve, and Matt]
Steve is an iPhone genius, so he looked at my device and thought my emails
of our trek from April 6 to 12 were actually REALLY LOST, but he and Dick
kindly accompanied me to the Apple Store in Santa Rosa where an official genius
confirmed his diagnosis. I'm still
musing about how to share trek events with you.
Stay tuned.
At home we found Dick's mom Leona content, our cats healthy and plump and
loved up by our dear neighbors Bill and Lynda Starrett, our house clean, and a
month's mail sorted and stacked on the dining table carefully by Bill. Add unpacking two large duffel bags to the
stacks of mail and you get "chaos," or at least lots of laundry and
paper for recycling.
As to the cough, I started with our shared "trekking" cold the
day we left KTM and it became a full-blown "cough your brains out"
event by the time we hit Chico. Unlike
my companions in Nepal, I could show up at Immediate Care and have an Rx for
azithromycin ready in two hours and stop at the grocery store for Mucinex -- a
great napping aid as well as decongestant.
We feel very fortunate to have been able to make this extraordinary trip
with good friends Donna Barnett and karma Ganzler who introduced us to the
wonders of Nepal and provided the perspective of their years of travel there.
Happy, lucky us! Namaste from home, Marian
and Dick
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