Stokes in Peru

  Hola Chicos & Chicas, One of the major reasons that Marianella and I chose to move to Bangladesh was for the promising travel opportunities that seemed to abound when we perused the maps of southeast Asia.  One of the first flights we checked after accepting the job was to Kathmandu, given the close proximity to Dhaka and it did not take us long to settle upon Nepal for our first extended vacation in Asia.  As you may have noticed, news from us has been pretty quiet-acclimating to the new job, home, and culture kept us very occupied through our first three months, so we were quite excited for our trip to Nepal. Gloriously, we were not disappointed.  Just an hour and a half flight northwest from Dhaka, we arrived in a drastically different terrain-gone was the humid flat land of Bangladesh, replaced by crisp air and the snow-capped mountains of the Himalayas.  Our timing was also ideal-late October/early November is supposedly the best time to visit Nepal, and it certainly wa