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2003-07-11 / 13 - Leh (Day 87-89)

I bumped into a bike rider in Rampur a month back who has kept in touch by e-mail and not surprisingly, as Leh is a small place, we just bumped into each other on the street. As it turns out our plans for the next stages of the trip are about the same, though he is just returned from Nubra Valley, which is my next stop, the rest of our plans are very similar. After finding how much less stress is involved in riding in India with two bikes riding with Paul and Jo, I'm quite anxious to spend a couple of hours working out how to massage our itineraries to get them to overlap. We set up a rough plan, which hopefully will get both of us to Lamaruyu to catch the next monastery festival there and then we will set off to Zanzakar Valley together. Its funny I keep thinking I have reached the most remote place on Earth and even more remote and desolate places keep turning up. The Zanskar Valley for example only had its first road built in the late 1980s and is supposedly almost untouched by civilization. As one photographer described it - "It's like a psychedelic trip" - I have no idea what that means but should be interesting to find out.

Other then that, I went shopping for the giveaway which has been delayed by the website crash which turned out to be much harder to find just the right prayer-wheel even though I knew that's what I wanted. With so many just seeming like cheap junk, I spent an afternoon going from shop to shop looking for one that was better made and had a bit more "personality" to it. Finally finding one, I will just have to hope the giveaway winner Alex Lin likes it.

I've spent 20 hours over these couple of days re-uploading the website to the US since Atlantic.Net still can't get their act together and recover the files they lost which was a horrible waste of time and money and a boring way to spend a vacation! However, the site is fortunately mostly restored so that is off my mind. That is about it for Leh, I will be heading up to Nubra for a day trip over the highest road in the world down the other side and back and then I will start the long ride down from the Himalayas as I head toward Kargil and Shrinagar in Kashmir.

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