Dog chases & wrap around tents
About 4 hours away from Lhatse and the rain is coming in
Today I had a dog chase me at 43km/hr – he was a prized Tibetan Mastif with foam at his mouth and ma-hoosive teeth! Well, at least that’s the memory I have :o)
Last night I wanted to sit on the side of the road with my tent wrapped round me like a blanket and just see the night thru. It was cold, wet, dark and still I had another 20k’s to go. 20ik’s just seemed like 100, I watched as my comuter ticked away 10meters at a time which seemed to take 5 minutes. I don’t know how the body does it but it just keeps going-I guess I go into auto pilot -
I don’t remember much of the last hour except rain, dust and hoping I have enough battery pwr in my lights as it was pitch black and moon light couldn’t get thru the rain clouds – only light was when the lightening started up! I looked for camp spots but all the way along the hwy were water catchment areas – for like 50km!
I wanted to break some wire fence in order to pitch on a rice paddy – I tried but my bike fell down the side of the catchment into the wire fence and I just lost all energy. It was as much as i could do to push the bike back up the muddy slope on to the hwy and walk at 6km/hr for a few k’s before giving myself a verbal slapping and continuing the ride.
I eventually rocked up to Lhatse and found a lovely Tibeten guest house – the blind owner really looked after me, opening the restuarantand feeding me omellete! Within 5 minutes I was all goode and ready for a good night’s kip. The blind owner went to school at the blind school I visited in Lhasa, so we hit it off as I told him all about how it is now.
Nomads roaming the land
Tomorrow will be another toughy but i am looking forward to it. I should arrive in Shegar by night fall ready for a climb up Everest Base Camp early Tuesday morning. I’ll try to spend 2 days there then climb out to the last peak before descending to the nepal border by the weekend. OK folks, I am boiling in this dodgy internet cafe and need some sleep. Speak on the other side of everest! Hope you’re all well – sorry can’t send any photos but they looked at my digi camera as if it came from mars. Miss you all heaps, mushypea
