02/14--Day 0-- Arrival at Kathmandu--20/9/2022

Up bright and early in the morning. Truth be told, I don't think any of us got much sleep in the night. We began messaging each other by 2.30 AM. Jayashree's husband Anand, who wasn't coming on the trip, dropped us to the Airport. All of us assembled, still not believing that this trek was actually going to start. A punctual departure and 2 1/2 uneventful hours later, we landed in Delhi. Since our flight to KTM was only at 1230 or so, Rathika and I along with our friend Sunita Sharma who had come to meet us at the airport, left for the Sharadamba Temple at C Block Vasant Vihar. This is a temple that we set great store by and we decided to go there and pray for the safe trek and return of all of us. We returned to the airport and boarded our next Air India flight to Kathmandu. Another great though short flight and we landed in Tribhuvan International Airport. Rathika and I had been here once, back in 2000, though I had visited KTM multiple times on work between 2000 and 200...