We spent our “bonus” day with Kasper doing what else but eating banana pancakes, chow mein and momos and playing chess! Best of all, Kasper and Ray snuck one more game in just minutes before his Jeep came to pick him up and…Kasper won! [ngfilename filename='P1020545.JPG' float=center] And then he was gone again, this time [...]
With a gasp and a “Kasper!!!”, I leapt off the bed and flew through the clothesline, knocking down my 4-foot map of India I’d been marking potential routes on, threw open the door and sure enough, in the dark, with all his bags and all his…Dutchness…Kasper was back! You can check out of Leh anytime [...]
The day had come that Kasper was leaving us. It was hard to imagine a world without Kasper now; having him with us was as natural as though we’d planned the whole 3-year trip to be with him and brought him in our suitcase from Tucson. The thought of him not being with us anymore [...]
At 11,566 feet the air is a bit thin. It took a week to acclimate to the point of being able to run out of breath every 10 steps instead of every 5. However, I needed to get the adrenaline pumping again. Nothing could quite top seeing His Holiness the Dalai Lama, but our new [...]
We’d been traveling for 3 weeks now, and somewhere around a week or so ago, we both kind of clicked into our rhythm and came to feel at home on the road. India is still busy and challenging and at times in-your-face with all the differences, smells, mysteries, uncertainties, frightening things (like the driving). But [...]
