Not so little spider

This young lady woke me at 4am. For some reason I woke up bolt upright looking straight at her. Believe me she was as big as my open hand and my hands aren't small. I didn't kill her I went back to sleep and left her. But I must admit that I wasn't that comfortable with sharing a room with her. In the morning I had to pack with with no sign of her. So I carefully packed my stuff trying to make sure that she wasn't in any of my stuff, thankfully she wasn't. Later found out that this spider can give a nasty bite.

Driving in the hills..

The tea plantations in Tamil Nardu.

Parked up the the night in Varkala.

River crossing in Hampi.

I had to drive my bike first down these steps, then on the way back up the ramp. Coming down wasn't too bad, but still a bit nerve racking. Going up was the worst because the bike is so heavy it got half way and I couldn't get it up any further. So I ended up holding the bike half way up waiting for help. In the end a number of people came to the rescue and we managed to push it up the rest of way.

After getting down the ramp above I had to drive on to a moving target. The boat was moving all over the place and how I didn't get a dip in water god only knows.

Hampi "Karnataka"

Mystical Old man who was the village elder. Taken in a small village near Hampi.

This photo was an accident and I'm very pleased with it. Doesn't she look so spiritual?

Loved this photo of my travel partner.

Met this guy in the middle of nowhere. He just seemed to pop out of the ground. He was very helpful like most Indians and gave us shelter from the midday sun.

The first step..

Hay, welcome to my shiny new blog site. As most of you know I have been traveling around India on a Royal Enfield Motorbike that I purchased in Sept 2007 in Goa.
For the first six months I stayed in Goa while I got used to the bike and to be honest got it fixed up to a reasonable serviceable condition. Yes I bought a bike that was pretty fucked, because I refused help which I was offered on a couple of occasions from people that new a hell of a lot more than me, because I always know best ha ha. But I'm a man and course I thought that gave me the birth rite and an inborn knowledge of all things mechanical. But to my surprise this was not to be the case and I ended up buying basically a heap of shit. I spent many days in the garage while the bike was being fixed, but this gave me the opportunity to learn a little about the bike which later became very useful so everything turned out perfectly.