Black Cat Express delivered my luggage to my home in Tokyo at 7:00 am from Osaka Kansai airport. As I lost a receipt of returning fee, I had to pay the additional full charge at its Kansai airport counter. But they retuned the additional to me by evening at my home in cash. I was impressed by their excellent service.

I brought a digital camera, "Olympus CAMEDIA C-2020ZOOM," to my trip but I met a trouble that its batteries are exhausted too fast. Although I bought lots of battery for replacing dried up ones, it became impossible to take shot any more. This morning I brought it to a manufacturer's service station and asked a consultant to restore it to the original status when I bought it. She said it would take about a week for repair. But she adjusted the old one, "C-900," at the counter, which I brought together with new one for adjusting it to replace a new one. Usually I brought around two cameras for the trip. But in order to minimize the weight of carrying goods, I brought only one camera this time and unfortunately met the accident. So I was obliged to buy a Kodak instant camera for the last two days of trip.

I used to carry two sets of PC for my trip. But I brought only a new Vaio this time because it is very light, although I had not accustomed to use it. I succeeded in uploading pages of my diary to my home page from the first hotel in Kathomandu. as I expected. But after the first day, I met lots of troubles for connecting to internet. The main cause of troubles was the mismatch of plug and consent to power line,

A customer consultant at Travel Goods Section of Tokyo Hands in Shibuya selected me for use in Nepal four pieces of plug and consent ( plug is for power line, consent is for Japanese electronic machines) as shown in the left picture. At a hotel in Kathomandu where I spent a first night in Nepal, B plug was just fit to consents in guest rooms. As I was trying to minimize the weight of hand carrying goods, I decided to take a B plug only for the further trip, leaving B3, BF and C behind at Kathomandu.

At a hotel in Pokhara, I could not connect my computer to power line because of mismatch of plug. At Jomson resort, a standard Japanese plug is fit to sockets in guest room but I could not connect my computer to outside telephone line.

At Fulbari Hotel in Pokahara where I took a night on my way back to Kathomandu, I could connect my computer to outside telephone line from my room and I up-loaded a few pages to my homepage, Travel Diary. But as for power supply, I could not find plug-in the power adapter of my PC to sockets in my room ( If I brought a B plug shown in the picture, I might have been able to get power. ) But I found in its toilet room a special universal consent for electric shaver and I could plug in my power adapter. While I was using my computer, it became unworkable and found it had consumed power saved in battery and had no supply from power line. When I checked the universal consent, it has a note warning only for electric shaver. It automatically cuts off power after a few minutes use, I found. Usually I pｕｔ on power of my computer throughout a day. Thus the machine was dried up.

At the Lama house in Kathomandu, Ｉ could ｇｅｔ ｐｏｗｅｒ to my ＰＣ by ｕｓｉｎｇ C plug. Ａｓ ｉｔｓ battery was charged, the ｆｕｎｃｔｉｏｎ of ｃｏｍｐｕｔｅｒ ｒｅｓｔｏｒｅｄ a little by ａ little. When I came back to my home in Tokyo where power ｓｕｐｐｌｙ ｉｓ steady, the automatic restoration ｓｙｓｔｅｍ ｏｆ Windows Me (Millennium Edition) ｗｏｒｋｅｄ well. Ｔｈｅ ｆｕｎｃｔｉｏｎｓ such as Suisse or Photoshop recovered automatically.

Ｉ realized that how ｉｍｐｏｒｔａｎｔ it ｉｓ to have ａ steady power resource ｆｏｒ the machine, and ｉｔ is quite important to carry at least ｆｏｕｒ pieces of plugs in Nepal. Ａｎｄ also,�Tfound a new battery and a power saving new CPU installed to my new machine make it to work for long hours without having power supply through its power adapter.

I spent all day for straightening up data about the trip. And�Talso received a few welcome back mails from my friends. Professor Toru Sasaki called me after months. As I have had no contact from him, I imagined that he was working on a new book or something like that. He told me he just finished the writing of a book. I am looking forward to seeing him at the earliest occasion.

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