Dausa: Keeping our heads down for Holi: One year on the road

March 24, 2016

A year ago we left our home in Boise to start our two year bike trip from Patrick's home town, Ossendrecht Holland. We are waiting out the end of Holi Celebration in Dausa, India (one day out of Jaipur) This is a Hindu celebration welcoming the start of spring and good over evil....also celebrated by throwing colored powder then splashing water on each other.

Ossendrecht Holland, April 1, 2015 to Tblisi Georgia

July 9, 2015 4838Kms (3006mi)

Nairobi Kenya, July 22, 2015 to Capetown South Africa

Dec 15, 2015, Total distance 10,710kms (6655mi)

Kochi India Jan 1, 2016 to Dasau India March 23, 2016

Total distance: 14,830Km (9215mi)

Milestones on the road:

Gori, Georgia: 20th wedding anniversary

Fort Portal, Uganda: Rachel's 65th birthday

Pushkar, India: Patrick's 50th birthday

Total years of cycle touring (not consecutive), 5 years

Everywhere: Coping with food fantasies of familiar foods

Thank you all who have supported us from home, sent messages, and signed our guestbook. This helps keep us connected. Thank you to all the people we've met on the road and have given support and shared information.

That's what makes travelling fun.

April 1, 2015. Leaving Ossendrecht, Holland.

Goring, Georgia. July 8, 2015, 20th wedding anniversary. Wearing shirts we wore on our 5 week honeymoon ride from Missoula, Montana through Glacier and Yellowstone National Park back to Missoula.

Arriving in Nairobi Kenya. Our warmshowers hosts sent a car to pick us up.

Crossing the equator holding our picture from 1994 crossing the equator when we cycled Capetown to Nairobi. See Reflections of Africa: Then and Now. See Reflections on Africa: People pictures

Der Anker for a good Belgium beer, waterfront Capetown

January 1, 2016 from Capetown to Kochi, India

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