June 9, 2018, Pune, Maharashtra, India:

All my bags are packed … well not quite, but getting there.

It’s my second trip this year – the first one was to Nagni in Teerthan Valley, Kullu in March – and this time am going to a part of the country that I have never visited before. Have some great friends from around there, and have heard a lot about the Himalayan mountains and people, so looking forward to it.

I hear it’s raining which makes it all the more exciting…