A very sad day..., 18.10.03

Hello Everybody

Today was a very very sad day for me, I had to take a decision which wasnt easy to take... I had to say goodbye to my most faithful travel companion, he, who went with me 10000 km through India, over the highest roads of the world, trough the darkest nights in Kashmir, to the scenic Forts in rajasthans desert, through the earthquake stroken regions of Gujarat and fianlly to the ancient buddhist cave temples of Ajanta. He almost never let me down, but recently he wasnt as reliable as he used to be, and his bad health caused me many troubles and sleepless nights, and the care for him costed me many thousand rupees, but as I said, only recently he started to behave in this way. So, I had no choice, today I took him to the train station, bought him a ticket to Delhi, let him wrapp in to protect him on his journey and said good bye, may he recover back in Delhi with the aid of a special doctor, I couldnt find here in this more remote places I was travelling recently....

As you might have guessed, I was talking about my Motorbike, 2 days ago the oilpump broke for the third time within 1000 km, and the mechanics just replaced the broken parts, but where obviously not able to fix the main cause of the problem. And because I have only about six weeks left, before I will go back to Switzerland, and I dont like to spent half of them in indian motorbike workshops I decided to send the bike back to Delhi, where Hynek can take the Bike to Papou (a really good mechanic) who can fix it properly.

So, tomorrow night I will take the Bus in direction of Hampi, the journey will probably take about two days, and will be some new travelling experience for me, instead of overtaking buses on the highway, I will myself sit in a bus. Well, no more privileges for me, just as all the other backpackers, beeing shaken over the potholed roads of india...

Oh yeah, at the moment I am in Aurangabad, just beside the Ellora Cave Temples, some UNESCO World Heritage site, I will visit tomorrow (also by bus).

ok than, nice week end and a good start to the new week for everybody

Martin

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