Breaking Down

"I feel almost well today. Dawa made French toast for breakfast. It was delicious, and I don't even like French toast! I only got a slight tummy ache, but I think that was from caffeinated tea. Cipro is pretty muck like a nuclear bomb for the intestines, so things like caffeine is usually a bit too hard-core.

We got invited to the family who lives by the end of the lake, but being the Cipro addict in the group, I got exhausted half way, and had to turn around. It's sucks when walking on flat ground makes you bonk."
- Carina Ostberg, October 5

"Back at base. Nothing much accomplished. Except that we broke down camp and took everything down. Now that was a shitty endeavor, to say the least! We had so much stuff! Mark and I threw out a ton of food. The worst part was trying to haul all the stuff down. So we filled four big bags with shit, and a big duffel that we had to drag off the mountain, besides our monster packs.

To put it mildly, it sucked ass. It was the hardest going down I have ever experienced. Waist deep snow over big boulders."
- Carina Ostberg, October 6

"I have, just as I expected, learned a lot about myself on this trip. I'm not a particularly giving person. I like my stuff and I don't like sharing. I sometimes have a hard time accepting others and I am really quick to pass judgment. Anything good? I'm stronger than I thought, both mentally and physically. I do, however, bonk. And when I say bonk, I mean bonk! And I think both Mark and I have seen sides we didn't know the other person had. Some pleasant, some not so. Funny how that goes. I miss my ring."
- Carina Ostberg, October 6

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