Crossroads
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 4:21PM
Giller

After a day of elephant safari in Chitwan it was time to continue my cycle from Kathmandu to Delhi. I put in over seven hours of road-time to make it to the town of Butwal. It was refreshing to stop and swap stories with a Spanish cyclist coming in the other direction. However, something was starting to nag me about Nepal and I still have no idea what. It was a great cycle and Chitwan had at last given me a taste of silence but my instinct told me that I was finished with Nepal and so I exited via Sunauli into India ten days early instead of through the far western border as planned. A night in the local love hotel might have been the final straw. When I checked in I found that the occupation of all previous guests was 'girlfriend'. The complimentary 'protection' under the mattress was not enough to defend me from an army of lice. So that's what the opposite end of the bed and sleeping bag liners are for. It was all too much although I slept soundly and thankfully so, as I needed the rest in advance of another 140k cycle to the town of Bedlum.

It was not the plan to do such long days on the bike since at least two hours of my day is spent in the hurt-box; not my favourite place by any means as it leaves me weary as opposed to fresh to embrace India.

Chat soon

Marco

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