Half hour flight vs. 24 hour bus ride

I just spent about the last 24 hours traveling from Jomsom to Pokhara, the 2nd biggest city in Nepal. I met a woman, Keri, from Bellingham, who had a guide (named Pasang from First Environmental Trekking, who she highly recommends), on the trek, and we were supposed to fly out yesterday morning from Jomsom to Pokhara, a half-hour flight! Instead, all the flights were canceled due to cloudiness and rain the 2nd day in a row. It is a little annoying that this is flyable weather in the US, but I am glad they aren't flying in conditions that they don't have the technology to fly in.

Yesterday we took 2 buses and 2 jeeps from Jomsom to Beni, a small river town that reminds me a lot of the area in the Amazon part of Ecuador, and then another jeep today from Beni to Pokhara. So it took us awhile to get here, but I think the drivers here are better than those in South America, even if the roads are worse. Our last jeep was also really nice- and had seat belts! Our 2nd bus broke down at one point, but they were able to fix it on the spot (a terminal on the battery was broken, but they had an extra lead wire, whatever that is). We also met a couple Australians on the trip, and the guy was a mechanic, so that was useful. They showed us a hotel in Pokhara they really liked, so we are staying there. Tomorrow I'm going to Chitwan National Park; hopefully the day after tomorrow I will be riding elephants!