leeches

Here's part of my right foot after walking with a new friend here up to the top of the Nagarjun forest mountain above Kathmandu. The blood is from leeches, who inject a natural vasodilator and anticoagulant, which makes the wounds bleed profusely for a long time after they finish sucking and let go. There is also a natural anesthetic, so it is painless. I'm holding my foot off the platform because it was dripping all over the wooden planks I was standing on. On the other side of my foot at the time of this photo one leech was still attached. I had nine altogether.

This is just a bone I'm throwing here because I know I promised a long post. There is just so much to write about that it is taking me forever. And I'm trying not to spend all my time on the computer, for obvious reasons, like having the sort of fun in the photo above.

More stuff soon, I promise.