hide in the fog

5.8.13

Bishnu, the crazy dog’s owner, brings the animal from above and the dog is holding on to his tail and spinning furiously on his chain as they walk down the trail.  The sun breaks out nine minutes before eight and it feels good.  Heavy fog blinds, the Thai duo in room five return to the room after a breakfast of chicken fried rice and fried vegetables and they close their door and the windows hey! why are you shutting out this glorious Eastern morning?

I have so far procrastinated as long as I can and one must sort of act, right?  At least before you disconnect in Houston control time four days.  I have far too much stuff to carry in a 17kg backpack.  A gentle purge is required.  My ratty torn up and kind of trendy blue jeans won’t make this trip I’m afraid.  They’ve been patched up once already in the crotch but it didn’t stop other places personal from tearing away.

I’m thinking nice pine trees in the fog.  Yesterday the very bright skies without a sun were nice for using the black and white chronometric or something mode.  Silhouettes turn out very nicely. 

Maya remains in bed after another visit to a dentist this time in Pokhara yesterday.  Dentists, God Bless Them, suck. 

10:07am—Thick fog rolls in darkens the room and the jungle is alive and growing and eating itself. Baba is on his way to Pokhara on foot.  He was sporting some nice looking cross-trainer shoes and walked faster than I was going too meanwhile another strike in the city begins, all taxis and buses are a no go. 

Plans to take photos in the fog keep stalling.  Let’s wait at least twenty minutes.  Let’s hear your agenda today.  Contact.  I don’t think I should watch this movie anymore.  I showed it to a class at Zirve with Turkish subtitles and they were definitely into it.  So, who are you?  Are you the Doc or those others out there?

5.9.13

A gang of mosquitoes taunted all night so I turned the light on and slept poorly until day light.  Prepack and purge day begins in a few hours.  An orange-lite sun suddenly appears from the light blue mist and fog and then disappears.  Last night Laxman and I carried, dragged, and walked Balarum back to his home after dark and a muscle in the lower left back just reminded me how hard that was. Once he was safely at home his wives offered us tea and pan fried beet root under a makeshift tent outside.

I don’t know what it is but advice from her leaves me disconcerted. If I am supposed to get a driver’s license I will get one.  Bureaucracy troubles but I can face reality and it won’t be easy but it leaves me depressed to hear it.  The heavy fog is a good place to hide right now. 

12:19pm—Mother’s Day in Nepal and Maya is off to visit her mother and will return tomorrow.  Gusty winds in a blinding fog-hazy are leaving me sleepy in the dining room.  Suggestions for staying awake?  A red bull, really?

Paul was a chosen by Jesus in a blinding light to preach the new way to Gentiles and Israel.  Gentiles who are non-Jews, pagans in Asia minor, Greeks, and I’ll leap, all peoples to the West.  The way wasn’t going East because a way had already been revealed thousands of years earlier.

Perhaps if his letters had been placed after the Book of Revelation pagans of other sorts in the region may have embraced the faith more and a prophet from the peninsula may not have been necessary. 

I’m gonna miss this nice bed and while I connect with Pico Iyer’s homeless traveler philosophy he speaks of one with money.  In four days the streets will be home again and there can be no time to be comfortable but that is what I am in the storm that slowly moved in, teased and then unleashed the biggest rainfall so far. 

I am not exactly encouraged with your plan after the LA bus station which is what again?  What else can I do if I don’t assert and I don’t know what I want to assert for, oh, ok, a job.  Yes, why not work anywhere, why mention anywhere when that anticipation is what, desire?  I desire to know, man, I’m lost.  The rain falls harder, three Vietnamese men check into room one.  They’re quiet. 

Some goodbyes will be in order tomorrow.