Ride Overland With Kanchan & Nick

  • Ethiopia: It’s time to get out of Africa!January 27, 2013 04:57:55

  • Kenya Part 2: Return to the land of Kalasinghas and what next?January 10, 2013 03:20:39

  • Uganda: A lush, green paradise!December 26, 2012 02:45:22

Monthly Archives: February 2012

February 14, 2012

Darjeeling—and possibly tea’d out?

The drive to Darjeeling was a foggy one!  We could see the road fine but the view was gone!   After 3 hours we reached Darjeeling.  Mr. Kang had recommended a place for us called Alice Villa.  After leaving the bike and our stuff at the old British hotel, we roamed around the streets of Darjeeling.  […]

February 10, 2012

Kurseong…our dream!

We woke up in the morning and decided to try the tea from their tea bar Chai Country.  Nick ordered the Ghar di chai (masala tea) and I ordered the Irish cream tea.  It was an amazing surprise!  I expected a creamy, unhealthy tea coming my way.  It was art!  It was Darjeeling tea, with […]

February 2, 2012

Where the hell is the road….

The morning we left we were running around to pack and also send off a package back to the US of stuff that we didn’t need and of a couple of souvenirs.  We ended up leaving a bit late but we headed out of Kathmandu along what seemed like a nice highway.  Around 4pm we […]

February 1, 2012

Back to Civilization

We got back and got done to the business of laundry.  We had loads…we hadn’t even changed much but almost everything we owned we had to wash!  We also missed good food and found an Indian restaurant in Thamel and indulged in some butter chicken and butter naans!  Nick decided to end the Bhagat Singh […]

February 1, 2012

Everest Base Camp Trek…On our way back down!… Part 4

The next day we decided, we were too tired and too congested to stay up any longer…we wanted to get back down.  It took us about 7 days to trek up and we were planning on 3 days down.  After we had reached EBC etc, we felt like we couldn’t take it anymore, we needed […]

February 1, 2012

Everest Base Camp Trek…and hell freezes…Part 3

Trekking from Pheriche to Lobouche presented us with lots of ice and forced us to cross two high passes.  Nick was feeling better but we wanted to protect his knee so we took it at our pace.  Any water along the way, stream, waterfall, river, a trickle, was just frozen in place causing me a […]