My knee has had me pre-occupied in the last 24 hours. Even though the last stretch of the walk last evening was quite pleasant - a transition as we left the treeline around 4000 meters and continued on a flat-ish patch that lasted about 800 meters to the lodge. Phortse was a brilliant place to stay. Here is a little less so but at a macro level things are ok. Well, relatively.
It is an acclimatization day and I skipped the walk up the hill with the gang to rest the knee. I got to use the internet cafe and walk around the village, after I came back to the teahouse its been exercise for the knee – rolling with a bottle on the floor, stretches and a shower. Walking around the village was pretty painful too – I tried skipping over a few stone boundary walls and struggled there as well. Not a good sign.
Anyway. I also discovered the caretaker has a 4 year old girl named Melissa. He has a 24 year old working in Malaysia and a 15 year old boy studying in Kathmandu. Its a pretty quaint life for the family here I wonder how the eldest son copes and what the future holds for the girl without any great education.
1301 hours
The team that came back from the walk said its pretty cold and they had a hard time keeping warm at all. A pack of Uno came out post lunch but it turned out to be only half a deck of and it has instructions in Japanese besides being a Winnie the Pooh version. Oh Andrea! I am going to go back to the book after I pick up my clothes from the sun and contemplate the knee!
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