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70:22 Nepal: Pokhara: A touch of this, and that, with much humility. A return to hiking following 'food poisoning'. We need to begin eating grass and leaves.

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"Hey, Kids, that's not the way down. You'll fall and hurt yourselves." As an aside, the number of 'new-born kids' we've come across is very high. We imagine the dads spent much time at home with the moms this past winter. Apparently, it's a reasonable route. Actually, this fellow 'flew', landed poorly and therafter, limped for about 5 seconds. The enthusiasm of the youngsters is amazing as they frolick at each opportunity.   Unfortunately, a bout of food poisoning laid us low for 3 days, after which we undertook a reasonably long walk followed by a medium length but tough hike. The latter proved to be most enjoyable but not without some muscle pain. We put our heads together and decided that should we continue eating the same foods, a further attack would affect us jointly, once again.    Thus, in another show of brilliance, we have decided to split the food consumption into different groups for each. Simply put, Jen will only consume veg...