Steven Raucher's World Tour

2001-04-09 in Calcutta, India
NH5 -The Road To Calcutta (is paved if you're lucky)

What a lousy drive. That damn road.

Well there wasn�t much more I thought I could expect from the Indian Department Of Suicide Tarmac (ie National Highways), I was wrong. They put speed bumps before bridges and corners!! Because, get this, they want to prevent accidents! Muppets.

So no serious casualties to report, bar a broken Laptop screen � too much bouncing you see. We split up the journey into four days roughly 500 km per day. This road is almost as busy as the infamous Grand Trunk road mentioned in an earlier story. Lunatics. All of them. And if they miss you they send in the goats and cows to try and finish the job. It is still a tossup on which of the threats is the most intelligent, truck and bus drivers excluded as we already know they are braindead.

So this was a bit of a whirlwind of a 4 days. But we did manage the following: Spent 2 nights in 5 star hotels (who you calling Hippy?) and met some really cool local guy in Visakapatnam (Hi SriNivas!). So as you can see riveting stuff. To compensate I have decided to give you the drivers-eye-view for most of the pictures below.

Enjoy the show.

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Ariella - hangin' in the jungle

burnin' rubber on the bridges

Hanuman- The monkey god

Oh, the joy! Arriving in Calcutta

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