Down the mountain we go 12/15 Day13

We have no destination we must reach so we took it easy this am. Breakfast consisted of potato omelette for Andy, good ol Tibetan Bread w honey and boiled eggs for me. 

We took off at 9:30 and headed for Kagbeni. We headed down again, not like yesterday, but still some switchbacks. The weather was nice, sun out w a slight breeze. We hit Kagbeni at 1. It was a very cool town, reminded us of Fez. We would have liked to stay there, we saw Chance and the Aussie, but we wanted to push on. 

The next 2 hours were intense through the wind tunnel. It was flat, along the river bed, but the wind was intense w dust devils, and walking on river bed stones sucks ass. We hit Jomsom at 3:30, its a crappy town and we are tired. It's time for some warmth and animals (Chitwan)! Tomorrow we'll try to hit up Pokhara if we can. Schools have shut down here due to the cold!

The dude at the bus ticket counter told me they were sold out. Then I said I'll buy tickets for the day after. How much? I don't know. WTF. Are you being difficult because I'm female or because we have a communication problem. Turns out the guys in our hostel are trying to get off the mountain too. We have to catch the bus to Ghasa and take other buses off the mountain. We have no cash and the dude said all the ATMs were closed and he got the last $75 out of the open one. Umm. The other dude said it took his friend the entire day of transferring buses and she reached Pokhara at midnight. That blows. Or, the flights to Pokhara are sounding pretty good right now. We have time, $200+ might offset the hassle...

The room we had dinner in was so cold, they didn't turn on the heater. I had the Dal Bhat and Andy had fried chicken. Lomsom sucks (at least in the off season), we are tired of being cold, and I think we need a change of scenery. We go up to the room and Andy says, we are going for the flight tomorrow. Yes! Hopefully the travel gods will be in our favor.