Marti and I are currently traveling. I’ve been in Idaho for a week visiting my family, and Marti is in Seattle on business. We hate being apart, and I particularly hate flying with small children by myself. There was a lot of screaming on the plane on the way here — at least until the flight attendant asked me to stop.
I’ve mostly seen family here in Idaho, but I’ve also learned a valuable lesson: I no longer enjoy camping in any way. I mean, Marti and I, we still hike, but we rarely sleep out and I remember why now. It makes me really irritable. Really, really irritable. Particulary the part where I don’t get to shower and have to pee in a hole where a lot of other people…well, Matt may not have had his breakfast before reading this, so I will say no more. All I can say is that the flies — they tickle.
We went for a single night, in which I gritted my teeth the entire time (see above), and Maya and Ben accumulated enough dirt to provide topsoil for a lawn at our house in Tucson.
Anyway, tomorrow we all wend our way back to Tucson by plane. I really hate flying at this point in my life — I’ve done so much of it — but I hate driving even more. Nevertheless, Marti and I got a real chuckle from this article about airlines in Nepal. We may have crowded seats, but at least our planes don’t get held up so we can have goat sacrifice.
Gotta remember to be thankful, I tell ya, Idaho camping regardless. 
Airline sacrifices goats to appease sky god
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Officials at Nepal’s state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircraft, the carrier said Tuesday.
Nepal Airlines, which has two Boeing aircraft, has had to suspend some services in recent weeks due the problem.
The goats were sacrificed in front of the troublesome aircraft Sunday at Nepal’s only international airport in Kathmandu in accordance with Hindu traditions, an official said.
“The snag in the plane has now been fixed and the aircraft has resumed its flights,” said Raju K.C., a senior airline official, without explaining what the problem had been.
Local media last week blamed the company’s woes on an electrical fault. The carrier runs international flights to five cities in Asia.
It is common in Nepal to sacrifice animals like goats and buffaloes to appease different Hindu deities.
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