11:18am Driving. See sign: "Indian Army; Pride of Nation". Drawing of the horn sign, but cant post that here. Army posts are all by the river, Camp is named after the tributary, Bespa, that empties into Satluj. Apparently we will get to see the convergence of Spiti and Satluj rivers (though I never have really seen it). Im enjoying the radio, is ( Read more... )

Last night: fire, warm round full sky, moon, stars, venus at first? up that- fire warm, night cold, same face in same moon in different place- Ian told stories, movie reccs, very interesting stuff that I havent heard of or recognized before. And Himalayas mean 'snowy place'. And Rohtang Pass- or Rohtang bottle water that they sell- Rohtang means ' ( Read more... )

Bamboo poles are used in buildings, Im wondering where its coming from. Its 4:02pm, I walked 13km to Chitkul at 3460m above sea level, fuck yeah! Just had stubborn motivation and was randomly singing diff parts of songs the entire time, did the walk w Karen. The "I Made it, I made it" song.. by BOB I think? was a frequent stuck in my head one. The ( Read more... )

6/25: Discovered how difficult it was to go the 200m from the campsite up to the road where the cars are- what a fuckin bitch. Just had to keep on pushing myself, to the point where at the top, after not stopping for any breaks, I just had to sit down and breathe heavily for a few minutes while everyone else got up to the top ( Read more... )

Just looking through my journal and going to type up the more noteworthy things:

6/22: The Indian food that they served on the flight over was so spicy it made my tongue swell up. And the nasty sunburn on my legs was starting to peel. Realized that Alan Ball wrote American Beauty, go figure.

Arrived in Delhi, 44C, 111.2F- at around 9pm at night!! ( Read more... )

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