  24/5/03 We are on the wrong side of the world, or right side depending on your perspective. For me it all started on Wednesday, with my chauffer and I (thank you Steve, a diffrent Steve at that) went to Pete's house in Gloversville to get closer to JFK. I had to pack till 1:30 am. We got up to go at 4:30 am. and drove, drove, drove down to JFK arriving at a descent hour, around 8:30ish or earlier, right now time is upside down... so please forgive any error in time. We lollygagged in JFK until 12:30 when our twice-delayed flight left. Our plan was covered in Pokemon, including pokemon chair protectors on the head area. "Can anyone say pickacho? " -Pete. Much different from prior flights of mine, we requested the Asian vegetarian meal, it was great! We got curried veggies and tofu! On this 13 and a half hour flight to Tokyo Pete managed to sleep some, but I could not so I watched 5 movies, read some, and tried to sleep. We got in to Tokyo around 2:30pm Friday weird how one whole day kinda just disappears when you cross the date line. 6ish we got on our flight to Bangkok, after exploring the Tokyo Terminal a little bit. I found more curry Pringles, I'm taking orders now, and with carrying fee I figure it will be around US$3.
It was a 6 and a half hour flight to Bangkok, but we got two hours back arriving around 10:30pm. We hoped in a ride to our hotel, a rather nice one too... to go crash for a couple hours. Up and out at 8am on Saturday for our last leg of air travel, a 3 and a half hour flight to Kathmandu!
Yay, we are in Nepal. Finally, two days later. We have settled in to our hotel (Tibet Guest House). It is Saturday, the major day off so we can't look for a Nepali tutor today, but have made contact with the 3 Sisters, and another personal contact, Dr, Khatry, who has invited us to his house for dinner. Thank you to all of you who replied to the first letter, I hope everything is going well with you too. And here are a few personal comments: Mom & Dad, my leg is doing well, but is still a little uncomfortable. Tammi & Mike, sorry I didn't get a chance to get out to see you, I got kinda backed up. We will have to give it another try when I get back (unless you wanna come here?
) Dr. Hale, Thank you for connecting us with Dr. Khatry, he is being most helpful when we are in a place that is new to us. Thank you, Steve (Pete too) P. S. If this is your first time getting this letter, I hope you want it, it is an update that Pete and I are going to try to send out to all of our friends state side while we are in Nepal for the summer working on our senior thesis.
If you are receiving this e-mail in error, please just ask and I'll take you off. Also please feel free to forward this to anyone who you think would appreciate it (especially you Mrs. Scarpa). P.P.S. Pardon my spelling errors and typos, it is not my fault, there is a little demon in the computer. 
