Tommy and Sarah came in October, it was such a meaningful time and valuable to have them truly experience what our life is like here in India. We spent a lot of our time preparing for and completing a trek to Harkidun. Harkidun is a high valley area about 8 hours and two days hike from Mussoorie, sitting beneath peaks and glaciers.
Excerpt from my journal...This trek had it's own beauty very different from it's counterparts. It felt more remote and removed than other pilgrimage sights. It possessed an untouched, unchanged mystery. It was enlightening to witness a valley and people frozen in time, not influenced by western civilization, living lives in the shadow of the peaks, glaciers and valleys. It was powerful to experience the views through their weathered faces. To hear their squeals of joy as they would catch a smile from our fair kids who will never know the true meaning of working the land to live like those village youth. They carry loads seemingly three times the size of them tied with a rope to their backs. They wear battered rubber flip flops and I complain about blisters from my boots and how uncomfortable the infant carrier is on my back and shoulders. It was humbling and there was something enchanting about this trek that left me moved.
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