A frightening encounter in Nepal
I was hiking alone. Two men were following me. I came to a clearing and stopped. Both of them pulled out knives. I was climbing the trail to Sarangkot in Nepal to get an unblemished view of the Himalayas. I was in a semi open-air lakeside bar in Pokhara talking to two American women. The two women were travelling independently. All three of us had met in the bar. One woman was a younger woman from Denver and the other woman was an older woman from Seattle. The younger woman and I were drinking a local beer, Gorkha Beer. The older woman was having an imported Heineken. "I don't trust local beers", she said. We were talking about Nepal. "I hate Nepal", the older woman said. "The roads are uneven. I get a backache travelling anywhere. The electricity keeps failing", she said. "I don't trust the water supply. I am too scared to have a shower. I brush my teeth with bottled water", she continued. She was staying in a luxury hotel. "That o...