Last day on the trail. We got up early and enjoyed the morning, exploring around the river. Had a light breakfast and then began our walk back into town. On the way we discussed the strange kind of solitude that trekking the wilderness offers. How we could be so out of touch and unscathed by the modern world. A new world war could be exploding on the forefront and we would have no idea until we came out of the clouds and back to civilization. And such was the case today, after a 4 hour jeep ride back to Darjeeling, we walked into a store to hear on the T.V. that Osama Bin Laden had been found and taken out by an elite Navy SEAL unit. It was an interesting yet unsettling place to be, there in the North of India, not too far away from where the evil bastard was finally killed. There was no celebration like the one I'm sure was going on in America. In fact there wasn't much more than untranslatable small talk amongst silence as the news repeatedly reported over the many T.V's and radios within the many shops of the Darj. What struck me was the lack of difference between when a worldly, respected individual dies and when a feared and hated individual dies. Our reaction, as a society is the same for both; we pause, we listen, we speculate, and then we wonder what will happen next.
Read Day 18 & 19
Read Day 18 & 19
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