On The Road

Early April
To experience Western Nepal and Northern India by motorcycle is beyond description, the facts are this; 6 days riding one day 2 hrs the rest between 10 and 12. Lots of breaks and traveling at speeds around 20 to 70km/h usually about 50 that's 30mph, pretty slow. 2 days I spent in Bardia National Park in nepal where I saw tons of tiger tracks lots of deer monkey and several Rhino, totally uncrowded park and great experience.

I should really try to describe how it felt to drive those roads and see how the world lives. Most of the land I passed through was Agricultural, in Western nepal all the work is done by hand, currently it is the wheat harvest so everywhere the fields were active with people cutting threshing and carrying. Sometimes the threshing is done by ox trampling and sometimes by an old woman with a stick, can you imagine? It's like vistiting a museum "And the Taru people of Nepal used to build there houses with sticks, grass and mud, they plowed their fields with Ox and..." no wait, they still do! Crossing into India 2 obvious changes, people don't smile as easily as in Nepal and modernization exists along side with the primitive. It is possible to see a harvester in one field and people cutting crops by hand in the next. The disparities of wealth are much more apparent, in Western Nepal everyone seems to equally have nothing where in India some people have and others don't. It was hard to keep my eyes open and keep seeing without judging, so much is mind blowing mind boggling, so much suffering so much hardship. Everything seems to be overloaded and overworked. Well I stop there it is just beyond my powers of description, I would reccomend it to anyone, highly memorable and thought provoking. I was not able to take many pictures for fear of creating the illusion that I could capture the experience!