Kathmandu-Nepal! A place I’d long wanted to journey to…even before we’d landed I felt I was home.

The plane (yes, we flew) began to descend into the Kathmandu Valley–lined by Himalayan hills. Just beyond the valley to the north lay the high Himalayas–a place enshrined with snow and wonder and, today, clouds. My heart sang as our plane turned low in the valley and in a timeless sweep over the city, a scene revealed itself which remains in my mind’s eye: an entire neighborhood of rooftops lined with prayer flags flapping the most friendly welcome to the stranger arriving from the lowlands.
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