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March 5, 2007: 18:25pm
Five years ago I wanted to ski Kashmir and now the long journey has come to an end. I felt a little sad waiting for my skis and monster bags.
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March 5, 2007: 09:42am
Reaching one million mantras take a while and they'd go through one prayer book every forty-five minutes or so. Local villagers kept piling in, always showing respect by folding their hands in front each _chakra_ and bowing and kneeling before …
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March 4, 2007: 18:00pm
On the cover of the newspaper in the seat pocket in front of me was a photo of a hot Indian chica, her skin splattered with colors. Today is the Holi festival, a festival of colors.
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March 3, 2007: 18:00pm
I experienced something new at five in the morning: on the seat and puking into a bucket at the same time. The subsequent burps revealed the culprit: the Kashmiri apple juice.
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March 2, 2007: 17:00pm
Lunch was freshly made bread that I picked up from the baker, honey, and a bottled organic apple juice made in Kashmir, which was still a year from the expiration date.
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February 28, 2007: 17:00pm
The journey is nearing an end and snow is limiting what I can do. It's not enough snow to ski where I'm at, but I can't physically get to where I want to be because of it. A mantra came …
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February 27, 2007: 17:00pm
We visited first with a paper pusher who handed us a blank permit that he asked us to copy because he only had one original. The bureaucrats had no copier in their offices so we walked a few hundred meters …
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February 25, 2007: 17:00pm
We took a bus to the Stok festival today. People stood ten deep by the time we got there, but we spotted an empty rooftop that we appropriated. It didn't remain empty for long though.
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February 23, 2007: 09:00am
The bedroom decorations shattered another preconception I had about monk cells; posters of the Sydney harbor, an American-looking model house with a flower garden (paradise?), soccer stars David Beckham and Ronaldo (fair enough), and get this: a teasing photo sequence …
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February 22, 2007: 14:00pm
The city was slowly coming to life when I returned to Leh's narrow streets. Women collected water in jugs from water posts, men pushed carts with goods, while children and puppies played in the snow before it melted.
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