Picturesqueness, now fleeting

It's so difficult to find a way to capture things in the mountains when you imagine that you're going to want to remember everything right as it was back there. I remembered that issue of Richie Rich which had something called a Smell-o-Vision that Prof. Keenbeen makes. So until I figure out how to bring to you two the smells and the goosebumps on skin in these freezing, sub-zero places I saw, here's some scenery and cloudery. This is shot on my way from Manjhi to Agoda, both in Uttarakhand. I never tire of the Garhwali lanscape, though next time, I hope to travel to a new part of the Himalayas.

fellow-companions

We met five year old Lali on Koh Jum Island in Thailand and travelled together for a day and half on our way abck to Bangkok. She and her mum were travelling together from Aus. Lali and Kapil became close friends the day they met and were inseparable till we had to go our different ways. 

Hamish and Andy, two very sweet boys from Edinburgh, were on the bus with me from Siem Reap in Cambodia to the Thai border at Aranyaprathet (where one has to cross the border in order to enter Thailand). I befriended them at the immigration queue as I was traveling alone and was feeling slightly edgy. As it turned out, the queue at the border was three hours long, instead of the promised half hour, making me incredibly late for my flight back to Bangalore from Bangakok airport. Hamish and Andy came to the airport with me in order to make sure I made it in time and in one piece. If not for them, I think I would have died in the cramped corner of the mini-van in stress or would have been lost to the dark rainy evening of Bangkok.

The two twenty-two year olds, best-friends for 10 years, decided to save all their money and travel through south-east-asia and Australia for a year - working, surfing and discovering new places. 

to you, and you.

This was me 2 days ago.

Think I look a little different now,

but you haven't seen me in more than that, 

so no one can tell, really.

I hope I see you soon. 

Au revoir

Be happy safe conscious carefree unserious meandering compassionate obscure playful metrical poetic sprited kaleidoscopic lyrical musical loud peaceful alone hectic strange and full of.

Love,
Avans