Desert Castle
Trip Start
May 11, 2005
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Trip End
Ongoing
Jaisalmer,
Rajasthan,
India
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Ahhhh Jaisalmer...city in the desert....its not actually in the desert at all... it's more sand swept plains leading up to the great Thar desert but basically it amounts to the same thing. Arriving here by train was something to be experienced in the non-air con carriage in the desert.... we were forced to keep the windows closed to fight off the hot wind and sand only problem was this didn't work at all..... it was like roasting in a steel oven while being sand blasted thru the cracks in the window. Luckily, we took the train in the heat of the day, so at least we had that going for us....seriously, on your list of things to do in life.......give this particular train ride a miss.
When we arrived, we had no real itinerary other than to see the desert fort and move on so we hit the town running....
Desert castle
. a quick lunch, a look at the fort, and the accidental discovery of one of only four government run and legally approved Bhang shops (Bhang is weed and is accepted and pretty much legal all over india for religious reasons...somewhat) I normally cant do weed... I cant smoke it...I cant drink it... I can't eat it.... I just hit the paranoid zone too friggin' hard... We bought some cookies... you know, just to see...... I didn't cry or nuthin'..... we just kinda wandered around the town in a daze, not really doing--or wanting to do--anything for a few hours.... eventually we made it back to out hotel.
Hooper being Hooper came with duty free Tequila.....it hit the table as soon as possible.... soon after that, in what was to become a disturbingly unnatural trend, Hooper hit the sheets... I mean for a KIWI, this guy cant drink wortha shit.... maybe it is the failed marriage.. or the botched love life in Colorado... maybe the fact that he owns TWO toy dogs should have given away his weakness or the skinny legs and clubfoot...who knows, but I think he has taken up permanent residence in the states cause NZ wont have his puny ass back .....
With Hooper passed out, Ben and I did the only logical thing...We split a beer and hit the town. I neglected to mention that Hooper arrived with a pretty cool speaker package for our Ipods that actually booms pretty loud.... this is of particular relevance to the story because drunk Ben and Dave...armed with speakers and a private rickshaw in the middle of the desert in the middle of the night....well you get the idea...
Pre wedding
Also, since we have the attention span of gnats and because our music was being challenged by another music source somewhere in town, we left the impromptu booze cruise on wheels and went searching out the other noise. I won't go into detail, mostly cause I cant really remember but I do know we crashed a wedding..a very traditional Indian wedding...and were somehow deposited back safely in our beds, all too close to the snoring Don Harper
Morning along with a slight hangover came early, as did our train out, I barely had time to make it by the Bhang shop for train snacks..........barely ...one more thing...in an inspired act of kindness and generosity, I parted with my skate board...I will let that sink in for a minuet .
I gave a skateboard to a kid in the middle of the desert.....maybe those cookies were stronger than I thought.
