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ShareI didn’t post this here, because it was more personal, but Seema suggested I link to it.
http://freerommy.com/ramblings-on-nepal-and-india/
PS – We’re all going through withdrawal right now, hence the heavyhanded tone of the post. But I wholeheartedly meant everything I said.

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ShareKerala is among India’s most beautiful states.
We also personally found it to be among the most dangerous to drive in.
Prior to entering Kerala, we’d been driving through more sparsely populated parts of India. The drive up to that point went through the Indian countryside where several times each day we would come upon a town [...]

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ShareSo we made it. 15 days. 3900 kilometres. Illness. Accidents. Breakdowns. Incidents. Unbearable cold. Unbearable heat.
We’ve seen it all in the past few weeks. We faced challenges, we overcame them and we had an amazing time through it all.
The ending is bittersweet.
Bitter because we couldn’t have Chris with us all the way to the end. Bitter [...]

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Let’s face it, we were in *way* over our heads just considering this trip.  In particular, none of us have had any experience with motorcycle maintenance or even changing spark plugs in our own cars… So when the organizers told us that we definitely, positively would  break down numerous times during the trip we might’ve [...]

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ShareWe left Palomen Beach in Goa at around 1pm yesterday. Rumors from other RR teams indicated that a bridge was out about 30km south of where we started out in the morning. But we’d also heard that they’d been ferrying boats across the river.
Ferry is a strong term.
We got there and proceeded to wait what [...]

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ShareThere are a few things you quickly adapt to when you start driving in India — drive on the left side of the road, lane markers are optional, honking to pass is not optional, and stop lights are few and far between.
We also started to build a hierarchy of who rules the road.  This work-in-progress [...]

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ShareYesterday Elena and I secured our Nepal visas, and today we got our India transit visas. So we’re happy to be rejoining our teams at some point in the next two days.
I’d like to take a minute to pause and thank those that helped to make this slight diversion possible.

First, to the Delhi Airport who, [...]

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ShareEarly on the morning of January 3rd, we set out from a love hotel in Butwal, Nepal. None of us had slept much and we were anxious to make up for the departure delay. We’d also been driving the previous night in the mountains which, as Chris will recap, was terrifying.
We arrived at the border town of [...]

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ShareThe three of us are sitting at a restaurant in Pokhara, where the weather is in the mid-60s, enjoying a view of the lake and trying to quell our hangovers. Yes, Pokhara, the Nepalese resort town we were supposed to leave today, bound for India.
Unfortunately a Maoist strike has pushed off our widely-anticipated start until [...]

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Share20 year old memories of my adolecense emerged unexpectedly as I sat on the bike for the first time at my motorcycle safety class last week. 20 years ago, I was 15 and sitting in my first day of a summer driver’s ed course, learning which way to turn your wheel when parking at [...]

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