Horn OK Please

Esin has arrived, and the three of us have been hanging out in Mysore. Today we rented a 78 model Yezdi. It is a 250cc czechoslovakian bike that has a hard time starting but who can blame it? Nevertheless it looks very neat and we plan to explore the area with the Enfield and the Yezdi. Before we rented the Yezdi the three of us were riding on the Enfield which I must say was boosting my social status as a mustached man quite a bit. One younger policemen tried to stop us, well we were already stopped, but he said riding threesome was illegal and after telling him we have seen 4 or 5 people on bikes, he tried to write us a ticket but I figured we are on a bike and he is not going to run after us so zoomed out of there. Other then that not very exciting things been happening, thank god. There are new pictures of Goa and Gokarna and of Hampi which is worth looking at.
Love to all
alp

Sorry that we have been slacking in describing our recent journeys but riding from town to town can be tiring and we are mostly just happy enough with ourselves when we arrive in a place. But i will stop to tell you all that, after one more beach in Goa called Palolem (which has some of the most delicately beautiful shells in the world's oceans cast upon its shores), we travelled to the hippie-haven of gokarna, just south in karnataka. we slept on the floor in our shack there and enjoyed excellent food in our israeli-infested restaurant/lodge. following that we zoomed up to hampi, which had to be the most lovely place i feel i have seen in india yet. there are loads of ruins from the vijananagar empire and the most gorgeous boulders strewn about a large area of several square kilometers. hopefully we will have the chance to return in the future, so that alp may do some rock climbing and we can ride through the river there in a coracle. we love you all and hope the happiest things for you. thank you ladies for the compliments on the haircut... now esin and i match, which is perfect for the image of alp's harem.
ingi

Too much good

Picture yourself on a motorcycle passing though strawberry fields and over ochre mountains... and you would have been alp and I one week ago as we left pune with our horse packed and our newly decorated helmets on our heads. Once we got out of the urban areas, the road was perhaps the best kept in india (as good as that scene in dil chahta hai) and we sped 500 kilometers down to northern goa. We arrived in Arambol (what was a semi-sleepy town three years ago) and started to panick because we could not find anything but a single bed, thanks to the 300,000+ tourists that come to goa for new year's eve (including us). The next day however, we scored an idyllic beach shack on the northern end of the beach, complete with romantic/annoying mosquito netting and since then we have been drinking our goan beer or port or cashew fenny as more tourist roll in and ask for room, but we are full. Yes the port is very good and the fenny since drived from palm sap or cashew fruit does not threaten to blind or kill us. However we have only swam once in the last week which is a situation we want to fix. There were minor problems with the bike but because we couldn't ride it to go to the place to get the stuff things were long. It is really nice to have our own transportation and we are thinking of going down south still since Esin's coming is delayed ever further we dont expect to see her before we leave India. But she has travelled in Iran and now is below K2, so she is having a good time. We hope all of you are having or at least trying to have a good time. For us, all is too much good.
alping

ps there are new pictures in the pune album and a new album for goa, click the title a few posts back, and comment for krysts sake, we want to hear you