slacking off

ok ok, so i've been slacking on this whole blog thing.  and in the city with more internet cafes per square inch than i've ever seen before.  i guess there was no panic to blog before internet was yanked away from me forever.

 anyway, things are great!  the rickshaw run finish was tons of fun, big ol parade, big ol partay, plenty of newly showered people, good times!  here's a smattering of the things that have gone on since the run ended:

the morning of the parade and party, drew and i rode mountain bikes up a mountain at 4am to see the sunrise.  after huffing and puffing my way up (a taxi driver laughed at us and said "not possible on bicycle!" but we showed him!), we found out it was a cloudy morning and we couldn't see shit, not even the sun.  so we ate breakfast, watched some japanese tourists take pictures of clouds and then road back down a dirt "road".

did a rafting trip down a furious river for about 2 hours of nonstop rapids (3-4+), very cool and good fun.  there was a bunch of bangladeshi dudes in the other raft that didn't know how to do anything, so their raft just kept spinning around in strange circles.  one of the guys, before he got into his raft came up to me (speaking bangladeshi, which i pretty much interpret as a series of gutteral "blahs") and basically pulls down his pants, then says something (i assumed he was asking if he could raft the river in the nude), i said "i don't care man" (he wasn't in my raft) and he hurridly pulled his pants back up and got into his raft.  no idea what the actual translations there were (like what he said and then what he thought i said) but it was funny.  and another example the men in this part of the world being completely gay for me (more examples to come).

drew flew to germany.  i cried, lots.

did a kayaking trip for 4 days with some fellow rickshaw runners, was amazing!  camped out on the river at night, learned how to kayak big rapids, can even flip myself upright after fuckups now!  and there were lots of those.  anyway, it was amazing.  

promptly got an ear infection from all the kayak flipping which delayed my departure for the annapurna trek (was supposed to leave yesterday, waiting till tomorrow morning now).  felt like there was an icepick in my brain for a couple days and could only eat liquid foods because my jaw wouldn't open, so i went to a nepalese doctor, who perscribed a shitload of drugs of varying usefullness.  eventually i just told him what i wanted him to perscribe and he nodded his head in agreement and now i'm on a couple antibiotics and such.  feeling better, solid foods are good.

anyway, i've been stuck in pokhara in limbo.  nice town, but too touristy for me and i'm itching for a change.  so tomorrow i'm off to hunt the abominable snowman in a mountain cave.  will be hiking for about 2 weeks (maybe a bit more).  got all my equipment for super cheap, and really good stuff (even if the brand names are fake).  so i'll be out of interweb range for a while.

wish me luck!