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24Aug/090

Twitter Updates for 2009-08-24

Finally ! got Leh'd :D a good drive from pang to Leh. now off to the permit house. Yes you need permits to visit all the good place here #
@vishnugopal good old internet cafe :) #
no gprs, so its back to good old internet cafes. good thing is that its in the cafe we eat :) #

21Aug/090

One freaky day .. Took us 11 hours to cover 115 kms ! .. Reached keylong .. Thanks to @codelust .. His car is carrying all our stuff too :) #
Today adventure cannot be explained in 140 chars .. This needs a full blogpost .. Which will have to wait till the end of the trip #

20Aug/090

Great weather here in manali today .. Hope it stays like this tomm morning when we start the next phase of out trip #
We are wondering why is this bakery called the german bakery when there is nothing german in the menu .. Even the owner is not german #
@tamang if weather permits we should be off to Leh tomm morning in reply to tamang #
There is something wrong at 'bindass movies' .. They are showing kill bill 1 for the 3rd time in the last 12 hours .. Hindi version of k ... #

20Aug/090

Great weather here in manali today .. Hope it stays like this tomm morning when we start the next phase of out trip #
We are wondering why is this bakery called the german bakery when there is nothing german in the menu .. Even the owner is not german #
@tamang if weather permits we should be off to Leh tomm morning in reply to tamang #
There is something wrong at 'bindass movies' .. They are showing kill bill 1 for the 3rd time in the last 12 hours .. Hindi version of k ... #

19Aug/090

Waiting for a clear sky to start the day .. 150 kms to cover today #
@vijayshekhar me and salil .. On the way to ladakh on our bullets :) in reply to vijayshekhar #
Stopped after just 10 kms .. Looks like it will be a day of short drives like this .. Clouds are all over the mountains :) #
Chips and tea for breakfast at 'pittola' #
Covered 70 kms in about 1 hour 30 mins .. Not bad at all .. It didn't rain on after our last stop .. And the roads were excellent .. Goo ... #
90 kms from manali .. 20 before we meet @codelust #
http://twitpic.com/ege53 - View from our hotel in vashisht .. 5 km from manali #

19Aug/090

Waiting for a clear sky to start the day .. 150 kms to cover today #
@vijayshekhar me and salil .. On the way to ladakh on our bullets :) in reply to vijayshekhar #
Stopped after just 10 kms .. Looks like it will be a day of short drives like this .. Clouds are all over the mountains :) #
Chips and tea for breakfast at 'pittola' #
Covered 70 kms in about 1 hour 30 mins .. Not bad at all .. It didn't rain on after our last stop .. And the roads were excellent .. Goo ... #
90 kms from manali .. 20 before we meet @codelust #
http://twitpic.com/ege53 - View from our hotel in vashisht .. 5 km from manali #

18Aug/090

Finally out of delhi .. At zilmil dhaba .. Eating aaloo parantha .. 135 kms in about 2 hours 30 mins .. Not bad :) #
Close to kiratpur now .. 290 km on the odometer .. Think we'll do another 150 before we stop for the day :) #
My last update was a bit wrong .. I'm now 10 kms from Kiratpur, and have stopped cos it has started raining heavily .. Still some 70 kms ... #
70 kms from Bilaspur .. If it doesn't stop raining soon, we might have to stop earlier that what we planned .. Maybe swarghat again :) #
Heavy rains just stopped .. The clouds are now moving towards Bilaspur .. Looks like we will be chasing them now ;) .. @codelust wait f ... #
It rained and rained and rained .. We ate our lunch and then decided we will test the rain .. And now we are in Bilaspur .. 415 kms done #
Got a room with an excellent view .. Time to take out the tripod and spend the next half hour clicking photos of the sunset :) #
@sonyjoy Bilaspur, himachal right now .. On my way to ladakh :) in reply to sonyjoy #

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