My apologies to those of you who thought the chronology was confusing before, but before I get started I'm going to do a quick reset.
If you haven't already figured it out, I'm mostly along for the ride on our vacations. I provide some input but Jen does the planning. Usually I'll deign to crack a guide book when we get where we're going.
For a change, though, I actually had some preconceived notions about China from reading J. Maarten Troost's Lost on Planet China. Likewise, I had preconceptions about Nepal and the Everest Base Camp trek from Into Thin Air (Jon Krakauer), The Climb (Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt), and Left for Dead (Beck Weathers).
In general, things weren't as bad as I expected. China, especially, wasn't as bad as I expected, probably because of the Olympics.
There are exceptions, though, and they'll be going up over the next couple of days.
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