Day 72:

I'm feeling very anxious today.

Earlier, as I walked down Pokhara's main strip, I got the peculiar impression that I was walking past the same group of Japanese cyclists over and over again. I got the impression that everyone in the city was Japanese.

...

backpackers belong to a sort of scene. A sort of subculture, I guess. If you don't fit into the scene in the right way, people can be apprehensive and mean. That sort of sucks.