Day 58: Jomsom

We were supposed to get an early start to the day with the battery in full repair. The battery was not ready when promised, so we already had a delay under our belts. Changing the battery acid and recharging it did not work, so the young kids from Benni had to bring in a new battery. Because of all the delays we were not able to get going until mid afternoon for our drive to Jomsom.

This leg of the drive was worse than we have encountered thus far. Steep inclines and jagged rocks kept us in first gear and constantly using our feet to balance our bikes.

We eventually came upon a large stream that we debated crossing. I was able to get a good video of Robbie going through it and crashing just before he got out. As we got the motorcycle out of the stream, a couple of Nepalese people arrived in a small tractor to tell us where the bridge was. Of course, I took the bridge and met him on the other side.

We made it into Jomsom past sunset with little physical energy to spare. We tried to find a good hostel by going from door to door. Each place required that you eat dinner there in order to get a room; of course, the food was crazy expensive.

We finally came across a hostel that would let us just order breakfast so we hunkered down for the night.

Luckily, we rented sleeping bags while we were in Kathmandu. The man at the reception of our hostel told us that there would be no need for sleeping bags. However, the past two nights have been absolutely freezing cold. As our altitude gets higher and higher the nights get colder and colder. I'm glad we came prepared.