That was 6000 Kilometres and it was bloody good fun.

6 cities, 30 Km trek up a hill, snow fights, bomb blasts and a mumbai in monsoon later, finally glad to be back in nanna bengaluru. i landed at the airport and the pilot said that the temperature outside was 24 degree celsius. 24????. i'll tell you. Delhi was 41, Chandigarh was 43, Manali was 32, Jammu was 46, Srinagar was 35, Mumbai was 32 (and ofcourse utterly humid!, I always wonder what will power keeps those Mumbaikers from running down the streets naked because of that dreadful humidity), and my hometown was 24??, we should have taken residence at the Leela Palace instead and sipped pinnacolada poolside for 10 days, that would have served the purpose. wherever we went, the thermometer touched record temperatures. the trip was awesome but this will prolly be the last time we travel as a family, as 4 finicky adults in an alien landscape.

I'll probably have to create a travel blog for my travel experiences but i made note of a lot of interesting things, and since i didn't have paper on me, jotted them on boarding cards and such, but as things went, had to dump them all at Srinagar airport because the scraps of paper were becoming an embarrassing liability. Srinagar airport has , probably, the tightest security in the country, they check you 6 times before you board the plane, and everytime they do that, they open your backpack and strip it of all its contents and scrutinize it thoroughly till they find something. at the first security check right at the airport gate, they nearly freaked out when they saw the iPod. even more when i told them that battery isn't detachable. they didn't believe it was an innocuous music player and i had to play them some music till they finally let me go. i was frisked 4 times and the CCTV clip would probably make for a B- rated girl on girl video and then there was utterly embarrasing, show- me- your- purse searches.It is, when your back pack contains things like mobile charger, knee brace, a copy of crime and punishment, dozens of cold tissues, boarding cards, air hostess appraisal forms and all sorts of entry tickets with scribbles on them. I had to dump all my scraps of paper after mom told me that the contents made me look like a pack rat. Anyhow i do remember what i wrote and i'll eventually get around to blogging them.

Big things are once again afoot and i can't talk about it right now. Inshallah, i hope the next few days go well.

P.S Nag, you know what to do, incase :P