Back to the future

Hello family!!!

We are now back in the 21st century, ever more grateful for food other than rice and beans....though we miss the people, the mountains and the clean air. We are not currently missing the bedbugs either.
We praise God for good health during our time in Humla. Daryl had a short bout with diharrea and we both experienced some dizziness, possibly related to altitude, but other than that, we were doing much better than we were in Kathmandu before we left. We wrote several journals during our time up there, which we will post at a time when we can access wireless internet.
We are so thankful for your prayers for us as we were in Humla. We are now in Pokhara, a town west of Kathmandu. We plan to return to Kathmandu on Saturday, and we look forward to being able to be in fellowship with other believers after such a long time out of it.
We had some interesting times flying down from Humla. We had arranged to fly back to a different city than we had flown to Humla from, in order to make travel from there easier, but when we got to the runway to get on the plane, we were informed that the city we were planning to fly to was closed( this turned out to be a blessing as this place remained closed a couple more days). We instead flew back to Nepalgunj ( or "Purgatory" as i prefer to call it) where we planned to get a vehicle to ride to Pokhara. We found out shortly after arriving there that there was a strike and the roads were closed so there could not be any travel that day(Monday, May 12th). Later in the morning, a friend had worked out an exit plan for us: two guys with motorcycles would take us through the jungle to a place on the road past where it was blocked. We were pretty excited about that idea, but later the guys backed out for fear of violence on the road to get to the jungle. So we rested a day in Nepalgunj and got tickets to leave Tuesday morning, so long as the roads opened up. We left there in a Micro van, with a pretty good driver and some grumpy passengers the next day. We changed vehicles in a town later on the road, as the van was heading to Kathmandu and we were going to Pokhara. We ended up on a Nepali bus, squished in the very back where we could feel every bump. It took more than 3 hours to go 90 Kilometers, which Daryl averaged to be about 18 miles per hour. Needless to say, we were very glad to get off that bus.
We have enjoyed having some good food here(cheese and vegetables...bread....oh the joy!). We hope to be able to share some pictures and more processed thoughts on our time in Humla.
love to you all

~jodi