On and Off the Blue Highways

Our travels have taken us 1704 kilometers through Kelera, Tamil Nadu, and Andra Pradesh, the land of "sacred peaks, rich green forests, vast paddy fields, famed diamond mines, and giant hydro-electric projects." We are now in the only hotel in Tuni, on the southern border of Orissa moving officially out of the South and into Eastern India. The majority of the first five days were spent on smaller roads between cities, but going was slow, including three flat tires from the rough roads, so to make up time we will spend the next couple of days on National Highway 5. It's far less interesting, but we got to reach Katmandu before Easter.