Our last morning in Siliguri…

…for this trip, at least.

I did the math and realized, as I was taking my shower, that it would be at least 37 hours before I could do that again.

We ate another good breakfast and Skyped with our life group back in California. Now I’m going to chill for a few hours, tru not to sweat too much as I’ll be in these clothes for awhile.

About noon (4 hours from now), Bharat and Bandana will pick us up here as we check out of the Montana Vista. We will go buy some tea to bring home, grab some lunch and make our way for Bagdogra.

Our flight from Bagdogra to Delhi is just over 2 hours long. It’s really clear here in Siliguri this morning. If it’s clear all the way to Delhi we might get a good glimpse of Everest.

Our layover in Delhi is about 8 hours. If they haven’t changed procedures we will need to find some place to hang out for about 5 of those hours, before we can go upstairs, check our luggage, go through Immigration and make our way to the gate.

I think our best flight is about 7-7.5 hours to Beijing. There I believe we have a 2.5-3 hour layover. Our final flight is a little more than 12 hours and if on time it should arrive at LAX around noon on Saturday.

It’s cool that we can leave Delhi just before 3am on Saturday and land in Los Angeles at noon that same day. It would be even cooler if that only took 9 hours of elapsed time!

Here’s the view out our window at the Montana Vista…

Those hills are to the north of Siliguri. The lovely village of Mirik is in the lower hills on the left. The village of Darjeeling is in the higher ones on the right. Darjeeling is at about 6,000 ft in elevation I believe.

Those are the foothills of the Himalayas. So it you keep going north you hit the roof of the earth. Go a little bit west and you find Mt. Everest.