A few notes: A common sight around Kathmandu these days are people lined up at the public taps to get drinking water. Apparently this is a common problem at this time of year. Not enough water for 1.3 million people. Whoops. They will shut off the water with regularity, there are shortages, the government will truck water into areas that have extremely limited access. The house that I live at has a storage tank on top that has enough water for about a day. That includes three or four showers. The system is just not solid. They rely on the water table to much and don't replenish it. The long term thinking is just lacking. Apparently the only system that is reliable is the one put in a few hundred years ago that survived a major earthquake. Everything else is going good, I'm planning the rest of my trips through various countries. Shaping up to be a grand old time. I am trying to get in touch with an old friend that lives in Turkey and another friend will be teaching pottery classes there this summer. Confusing what will be limited time in Turkey is my friend's mom, who's 88, and lives an hour off the Turkish shore in Greece. Grr. Life is to short and there are to many places and people to see.