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Kathmandu, Nepal.....Defying Description but I'll Try

"Why are they stopping cars? What are they looking for?," I ask my Mom and our driver at yet another police road block in Kathmandu. If monkeys roaming free, goats, people desperately seeking a non-existant sidewalk, chaotic drivers and their one-step-away-from-the-scrap-metal heaps of vehicles, chickens, pedi-cabs, and pseudo-rickshaws...oh, and stalled out cars and toppled over trucks and heaps of trash aren't enough to bring the incessant flow of traffic to its inevitable halt (I don't think we ever saw the speedometer go over 15 miles an hour anywhere in Nepal) then I guess the police checkpoints will take care of any travel progress. I guess they weren't looking for us because our car and driver were continuously waved through....I still don't know what the police were looking for and I guess I never will. As with so many things in Kathmandu, some things are best left not understood. It has taken me a few weeks to share my thoughts about our travel