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📍Journey to Thorong Phedi High Camp Trekking the Himalayas / The Annapurna Circuit

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📍Journey to Thorong Phedi High Camp Trekking the Himalayas / The Annapurna Circuit Day 8: so we didn't see any yaks in Yak Kharka but we woke up to a little white surprise. SNOW!! ❄️

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📍Yak Kharka Trekking the Himalayas / The Annapurna Circuit Day 7 Best veggie momos I've had in my life!

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📍Manang Trekking the Himalayas / The Annapurna Circuit Day 5: After trekking a few hours through a dirt road with no trees or green in sight, the large village of Manang finally appeared before us... (at Manang)

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📍Manang Trekking the Himalayas / The Annapurna Circuit Day 5

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📍Humde Trekking the Himalayas / The Annapurna Circuit Day 5: The trek to Manang started at 7am. We hiked through the remaining of trees before the pass, through the Humde Airport and towards the big village of Manang which lands resembled more of a desert.

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#the100dayproject #100daysoflovingmyself #28 Quick confession to make: My social media is actually a bit delayed and I am really currently in India with a recent visit to my New Hope girls. I would just like to wish a Happy International Women's Day to all my females from the inspirational little ones that continue to strive, the independent wandering souls and the nurturing, supportive, compassionate, loving women who give endlessly and put all above themselves. I love you all, thank you for all that you do. ❤️❤️❤️ (at Delhi Faridabad Ncr)

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📍Gyaru Trekking the Himalayas / The Annapurna Circuit Day 4: Acclimatization Day! From Lower Pisang 3200 meters (9600 feet) in elevation, we needed to acclimate our bodies on Day 4. We climbed up to 3670 meters (11010 feet) 22 switchbacks and hung out in the the small village of Gyaru where we had Dal Baat and yak cheese for lunch. Our host Raju, explained to us that a Frenchman came to Ghyaru and taught all the villagers to make cheese so from then on it became an addition to their food source and income.

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📍Lower Pisang Trekking the Himalayas / The Annapurna Circuit Day 3: The first trek, off to Lower Pisang! We left when it was still dark at 630AM from Chame after cooking oatmeal with protein powder on the jet boil and trekked until 4PM. Along the way we met several Nepali porters and trekked up the most intense inclines for the day together.

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📍Chame Trekking the Himalayas / The Annapurna Circuit Day 3: We finally arrive at Chame around noon! After having lunch at a tea house we hike up 900 meters (about 2,700 feet) to acclimate. After a good hour up in altitude we head back down where Kershad and his family cook us mushroom curry and we eat dinner with his family in his kitchen. Best mushroom curry I've ever had. Dal Bhat power 24 hour. 🍛 (at Chame Manang)

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📍Chaymje Trekking the Himalayas / The Annapurna Circuit Day 1: We took a bus from Pokhara to Dumre and then hopped onto the next bus to to Besisahar. We reach our first checkpoint only to realize that in less than 24 hours we'd lost Ken's permits and journal of the last year. Luckily, the office was able to look it up and provide alternate papers for the remainder of his trek. We then got onto a jeep, packed with about 12 other Nepalis, filled with our packs and luggage and set out to Chaymje where we fell asleep outdoors underneath the stars in our zero degree sleeping bags.

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📍Trekking the Himalayas / The Annapurna Circuit Day 0: Bus to Pokhara We arrived at the Nepal Tourism Board just in time to pick up our ACAP (Annapurna Conservation Area Permit) and TIMS (Trekker's Information Management System). To trek the Annapurna Circuit, you need both permits. The ACAP is the park entrance fee that costs about 2,000rps ($20) and the TIMS is the trekker tracking that is used for checkpoints through out the circuit costing about 2000rps ($20) for trekkers without a guide or porter and 1000rps ($10) for trekkers with a guide/porter. But who needs a guide or porter when I have this crazy mountain man?!?! We both carried 70liter and 85liter packs (guess who carried which 😉) weighing about 17 kilos (35/40lbs) and 25 kilos (50/55lbs) Just ask what's in our packs!!! I got to break in my brand new Gregory Deva 70L pack from REI that was a departing gift from my father. 💙 Annapurna Circuit Ready! (at Nepal Tourism Board, Pokhara)

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at Dom St. Bartholomäus

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touch n' go in Frankfurt, Germany.

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Upon my reasons to make a trip back to the States, one of them was to donate my eggs to a Chinese Australian couple. This was something that I had thought about for a long time and a there were a few things that finalized my decision. I first started considering this after I volunteered at the girls orphanage, New Hope, in India. My experience there made me realize how many girls needed a mentor, a mother, someone to guide them to pursue life dreams. They needed family because thats what shapes lives. I started to think about the other end of the spectrum as well, how couples may want to create families but aren't able to do so. My second trip to India, I just so happened to end up going to fertility center randomly and walked into a room where a couple had just given birth to twin babies after many tries that didn't work. It was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen, to see all four of them, a family, and absolutely glowing. It was magical. The last thing was when I was asked what my wish would be if I only had one day to live. My answer to have the opportunity to donate eggs and help someone create life left my mouth without even realizing. I began to question, if these were things I truly wanted to do, what was it that stopped me from doing them? So from there, the process began. I registered myself with several different egg donation agencies and within a few months I was selected by a lovely couple from Australia. I am not going to say it wasn't a difficult process because it was (and my partner who so amazingly supported me throughout all of it) It involved injections amongst many other steps and finally the procedure itself after I produced 29 eggs and they had grown large enough in size for the retrieval. The procedure itself wasn't difficult because I was asleep under anesthesia but just before, I had to keep telling myself to relax, breathe regularly and that I would be fine. I remember waking up, I looked at the nurse and asked "did you get everything you needed?" She said yes. I asked her if there was anything else and she replied no. I was emotionally, mentally and physically drained. They wheeled me out to the hallway and there I met the couple

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Hello guys! I am leaving SF Monday the 18th and I definitely didn't get the chance to see everyone but I will be working my last night at McKenzie's Bar tonight on Geary 17th if anyone wants to come by to say hi. (: ❤️ you all. (at San Francisco, California)

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"You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful." ~ ❤️