…ziploc bags full of medicines…hiking boots…small compact photo albums…USB keys full of files…gortex…fleece…jackets for the rainy season, the dry season, the heat, the cold, the dust, the altitude…compact versions of everything possible…UK pounds and US dollars…camera…airplane snacks…toothbrush…passport…

Travel should be simpler.  It will be a cruel irony when we get there and discover that everything is on our doorstep in Nepal.  The curse of the traveller truly is believing that everything one has in their current life is both necessary and only readily available here…my excuse…moving is a different story.