Imagine a dirt road, pothole-strewn, with five 18 wheelers, busses and a smattering of passenger cars and a few foolhardy motorcyclists contending for four lanes of highway. Mix in major construction sites every five miles and the occasional sacred cow meandering through the traffic and that’s the Jaipur-Delhi expressway we traveled today. Ten hours of bus travel with two stops, one being lunch at a roadside café.

The only notable sight today was what Jai calls “new New Delhi” – a neighborhood of one impressive modern high rise office or apartment complex after another. It’s a reminder that portions of India are decidedly first world. A stark contrast to dear old Pachewar that we left this morning.

So that’s it for this half of our trip. Tomorrow we fly at 1:30 PM to Kathmandu. Jeff and company will meet our flight and take us to Pashupatinath, the holiest Hindu pilgrimage site in Nepal – it’s a crematorium, as well as a temple.

If anything comes up at the Farewell Dinner, I’ll let you know tomorrow. I’m taking the rest of the night off!