Old Rajpur - Uttarakhand - India (4)

Yo yo yo...

This is my last post in Old Rajpur, we just had a good-bye lunch at the Chanchani's house. It was very nice and even moving in a way. Some people have been traveling for quite a while together and so this was a more permanent good bye for them as for me... (therefor moving them to tears) It is a good-bye to a lot of the people but I'm not at all sad. I will continue this journey with some people of the course. And than for others, I'm pretty sure I'll see them again in some point in life. Quite some people of the group live in UK and so... It'll be possible to meet up in the Peak some day. Others live slightly further away but... I'm very aware that the world can be such a small place. Especially when it comes to randomly meeting up with people when you do have the same interest. Than for an other few people of the group, I've established a really close friendship so in that case... I might be randomly meeting up with them at some point, and that will be so cool. But there is little doubt in my mind that I will see these people again at some point in life. The one person that I definitely want to see again is Tutti (Fernanda Neubauer - the Brazilian girl - living in Florida). And then there's also Carl (born in Germany but living in San Fransisco). He's really into yoga - hiking - biking, he's great fun and... I'd love to have a project with him one day. Since both these people are living in the US, I might just have to go there on my next trip. Ha ha... Don't know yet but I'm definitely positive that a trip to the 'US of A' is added on my 'still to visit places'-list.
Some people might still know that once, back in the days, I've declared I would never in my whole life put a step onto that continent but... Luckily I'm somewhat older now and with the maturing I've become somewhat less prejudice. Thank God for that... This can only be a good thing.

So, the plan for the next few days... Taking a taxi to Manali and then a Jeep to Leh. That plan hasn't changed yet (although there's a small chance there will be a small alteration in plan - this is still India - but than I'll inform you all about that later). I'll probably be arriving in Leh on Friday. So it's perfectly fine if you don't hear from me in the next few days... I promise to catch up with you all from the moment I get there.

For those who have my cell-phone number --> this won't be working in Leh!! So I won't be reachable until I have a new SIM-card. But again, I'll keep you posted. Bye bye...