Currently Adam and I reside in Darjeeling. We just finished the Singalila Ridge trek through the West Bengal hills, where we hiked between villages, staying at elevations spanning between 6,000 and 12,000 feet. If you want to learn why there is a picture of a dog family starting this section of our blog, please continue.

"Gorkey" the dog. She followed us 18Km, from Gorkhey (hence her name) to Shri Khola. We kept expecting her to turn back, esspecially at times when she would dissapear. But she was actually taking short cuts on a path she knew very well and always returned to our side. We stayed the night in Shri Khola and herd her and another dog howling at eachother across the river. She was waiting for us in the morning, and continued to trek along with us until we got to a lodge where her male friend and a puppy came bursting out the door to meet her. The puppy was identical to Gorkey. And oddly enough that is how are trek ended.

Painting on a Buddhist prayer wall along the trek

Friend in Gorkhey

Grandma in Gorkhey

House in Gorkhey

Adam by the Raman River

frog by Raman River, Gorkhey. just after adam took this photo the frog jumped over his head while urinating on Adam's hair.

Adam holding a duck

Ashley kissing a goat

A bee on a rose 

chickens in Gorkhey 

Adam petting a young chicken 

Yak, on our way to Gorkhey.. 

Ashley on a green hill 

Phalut 

A goat between Phalut an Sandakphu 

"Daddy cowboy," Adam requested that I add this photo to the blog collection, and title it so. 

Adam doing a ritual belly slap before we begin 

Ashley getting ready for the longest day of the trek 

Prayer flags and the moon 

Kanchenjunga 

Himalaya, west of Kanchenjunga 

Sandakphu and the eastern section of the Himalayan range 

Ashley on a rock above Sandakphu (Apical point of Bengali hills!)