Day of the second earliest departure of the trek: 0800.Swear I saw a 2 inch bug on the door jamb last night when I was up to use the toilet, but it was gone when we woke later on. Probably better that way; as it stands now I can pretend it was a dream, that bugs that large don't exist in the world.
Warm, sunny -- better weather than we've had for several days.
We agreed that we would walk as far as we could today in order to be in a good position the next day to hike to the end of the trail and catch the bus home. Turns out, catching the bus isn't a big worry; they run all day several times an hour. So we ended up pushing through to the end, Sundarijal, and getting home two days early.
The last uphill was a dozy (doozy, duzy...?), but the training paid off (i.e. the previous 11 days) and I made it faster than Mark expected (damn runner, walking up the hill like it's nothing!).
P.S. – I'm gonna write and complain to Lonely Planet; what they don’t tell you is that the last 2km of the trek is downhill via stone stairs. Lovely to look at, terrible on the knees. I was sore for several days afterwards. But more on post-trek life in the future.
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