Cheryl & I just Skyped. It appears we’ve had a miscommunication — a friendly one. She’s had a long-term plan to trek with another friend this spring. I could swear I remember her saying that, because of this, spring is not an option for my visit. She thought she’d told me that she can shuffle plans with her other friend to free up time for a spring trek. I felt a jolt of hope when […]
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A Squeaky Heel Gathers No Moss
Despite the subtitle of the Wormlips Blog, I really don’t think it’s all about me. Well, at least not all the time. One way it’s not all about me is that Cheryl has been suffering for the past two weeks from a particularly brutal South Asian disease of uncertain diagnosis. I get to see her when we video-chat on Skype. She looks pretty even when she’s sick, but she does look very sick at the […]
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I just stumbled upon this postcard that Cheryl gave me a few months back. We plan for Gokyo to be our ultimate trekking destination—unless I have the strength to move on to Everest Base Camp.
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This morning Cheryl headed home to Nepal. I can’t believe how inconsiderate the Caltrans decision-makers were, not to consult her before closing the Bay Bridge for the weekend. Her seventeen-thousand pounds of luggage made BART an unpleasant and ultimately unworkable option. Luckily the Nimitz and the San Mateo Bridge were kind to us. And Old Blue handled the trip with such dignity and grace that, in a flash of wisdom, I decided not to sell […]
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