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Last Days in India
The ride from here becomes progressively worse. Driving through a town called Am (Ahm?) we lose a passenger foot-peg on the bike – its nut has come loose because of all the vibration…
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Planting Around the World – Mission 1 (INDIA)
In our Planting Around the World Mission our challenge is to plant at least one tree for every country we visit during our world backpacking trip. Why? With all the talk about carbon…
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Second Great Escape from Delhi
It’s about 04:00 as our alarms sound and we get ourselves dressed and the bike loaded down in the alley in front of the AMAX Hotel. By 05:00 we’re ready to go. We…
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Delhi Again
We arrive at the hotel at 3AM. They try to overcharge us on the prior agreed rate – “tax” being the excuse. We don’t get much sleep and our day from morning to…
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One Step Forward
After a good sleep we wake up and complain to travel company about our experience. Some things were outside of their control and they had their reasons and excuses, but the late departure,…
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The Hopeless Search for Organization
We do lots of walking around Delhi, trying to organize our trip. We spend a few hours trying to find, and a few hours talking to the "official" (ISTD?) government tour operators about…
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Remembering the Warm Welcome
Around 0630 we step off our chic 777 and proceed through the slick new Terminal 3 of Indira gahndi airport. A clever trick but a bit unfair: Ebru takes a few snaps with…
