Too late to rebel, too early for mid-life crisis.

Well, in my ever present quest to become Vanilla Ice in his first movie Cool as Ice ( http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/385.html ) I have gone and bought a motorcycle. Yes, I am now the proud owner of a Honda Hero CD100, plus a completely over the top leather jacket. In the ajoining picture I am demonstrating the proper way to mount, or dismount, a motorcycle of this caliber. The choice was either buy the more fuel efficent motorcycle or and Enfield 350, but for my purposes the Enfield was overkill even though it was a beautiful motorcycle. Anyways, I should fill you all in on the last couple of days.

I was in the Sihk temple for two nights while I bought a motorcycle and prepared to leave. The day before I left I ran into Dietmar, a man from Germany, who was traveling across India on an Enfield. He offered to ride with me for the first two days seeing that I am not the most advanced motorcyclist. On October 30th, early in the morning, we left Amritsar. My first day on a motorcycle was pretty intense seeing that we went 250km, but everything went fine and we pulled into Ganganagar by 5pm. We opted for the cheaper hotel which was 100 Rupees. This turned out to be a mistake, but for the price we weren't complaining. We each took single rooms and began to unpack. 45 minutes after arriving, there was a knock on my door, which I thought was Dietmar, so I opened the door. In the doorway were 4 military personel who walked into my room with all my hotel paperwork, questioned me, and searched all my bags. It turned out that we had entered a town near the Pakistan border that rarely saw tourists so we were immediatly under suspect. The rest of the evening was uneventful until I woke up at 4am with a mouse crawling up my neck and onto my head.

The next day was uneventful. We entered a desert where the road was flat and in good condition. We again did 250km and arrived at Bikaner in Rajistan by 2pm. After searching for a bit we found a nice, comfortable hotel, which was good because I had food poisening for about the 5th time since I had hit Islamasbad. Truly, I'm having a very difficult time finding safe food. Food preperation here makes street food in China look healthy. Bikaner is amazing right now. There is a festival starting and every night hundereds of thousands of fireworks are set-off between 7pm to 1am. Its like the 4th of July but with christmas lights.

Anyways, I'm resting for a little bit seeing that I'm in a nice quiet place, but I'll be heading out again in 2 days.

I added 2 pictures because I have a fast connection. One was taken at 15000ft and is on my K2 post about my trek. The other one is on my last post and is of the Sihk Golden temple where I stayed for 2 nights. Hope everybody is doing well.