Notes From Nepal and Other Places

Ours is the only vehicle on the trail. We go bouncing along with wind in our hair, dust in our mouth, head banging the roof, and all the while, the dashboard audio loudly blaring songs like I'm a Barbie girl in the Barbie world... Come on, Barbie, let's go party!

A wrinkled old woman quickly picks up her phone and clicks a picture. It's obvious she has not seen in her long life, a group trekking in a jeep, and with such pomp.

We are in Nepal on a mission to trek to the basecamp of Annapurna. Little do we know that we will soon be crawling on all fours on the mountain.

Joshi Mukard is a wandering soul with no place to call 'home'. He was born in Kerala, brought up in Tamil Nadu and currently lives in Bangalore. He is a carefree man. He wakes up in the morning and sleeps at night, and in-between, he ducks, stumbles and dances through this world.

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