my last ktm blog entry

so the movers are here as i write...a sleepless night left us fully packed and ready, but nervous about the weight of our shipment. we shall see, but i won't be able to write it until because they will take my computer for the final tally! it's amazing how much stuff you accumulate and add that to what you've already brought over, it can be obnoxious. it's nice to think you don't have much 'stuff' until you try to move it! thankfully christy's work is paying for it, but they don't know how much our load is either! : ) it's friday morning and we leave monday afternoon to begin our journey. it'll be strange to be in the apartment without much stuff, but also very freeing! then we will just have to worry about our traveling bags and cramming the remaining items in our bags. 

yesterday, as i was riding on the back of a nepali guy's (christy's colleague) motorcycle without a helmet, mid day heat, on the ring road which is total air pollution, i looked up and saw the mountains and got a  little nostalgic. nepal is a tough country with tons of problems and very little hope for the foreseeable future, but certain aspects i am going to miss. it may take me a while to figure out what those are, but i have always enjoyed being a minority and living simply, and the culture here and spirituality can't be beat!

so, the movers continue packing my not so simple seeming stuff and i have a sense of contentment knowing it will be out of our hands in a couple of hours. whether it will arrive back in our hands in santa fe, where we're having it shipped, is a completely different question!!

i will be in touch on skype, email and will even try to blog as i can. the first couple weeks we will be in mongolia and i doubt there are too many internet connections out on the steppe. but, know we will be fine and i will be happy to see the reindeer herders coming down from russia for the summer! 

take care and drop me a note when you can and leave comments so i will be encouraged to blog! lots of love; hope you're all having a great summer!  j