09/04/2010

I got an email today saying that Katie, my foreman for treeplanting in Canada was having family problems and would not be able to work meaning we would have to break up our crew and spread ourselves amongst the other crews. This is very annoying as our crew was awesome and the chances are we may not be able to work with each other.

Anyways, I was going to join Shaun and a few others to rainbow festival where a bunch of hippies hang out in a forest and dance around the campfire, apparently the rangers for the area have tried breaking up the gathering but the hippies refuse to move.

Instead to going to this hippyfest fully knowing I certainly would not enjoy it I joined Barbara, Marcus and Rosie to Mussoorie a hill station just under 300km north of Delhi.

Im going to spend a few days here before heading up to Manali 14 hours north of here.

We left Rishakesh around midday when it was unbearably hot and had to hike across the busy bridge and up several flights of stairs to the rickshaw stand to get to the bus terminal. It took 2 tuk-tuks and 2 buses’ to get to Mussoorie where the weather was chilled being at an altitude of 2000m.

We checked into a place that seemed very nice with even a kitchen so I can cook but after paying the first night up front we later found out there was no hot water.

Tomorrow on top of making a few phone calls to Canada we are going to move to another place.

I did tonight however have thali, but this time with chicken! It was delicious, I certainly needed my meat fix and im feeling 100 times better because of it.