1-17 July Dharamsala is like a golden cage - it's fun to stay there, but it's too fun; and after a while there is the nagging feeling that there is so much more of India to see, if only I can break free and get on a bus. The days take on a fairly regular routine - wake up, go to a favorite breakfast place, walk down the street afterwards and see someone I know, stop and have a chai with them and then before you know it two hours have passed. Try to walk back to the guesthouse or somewhere else, see someone else, have another chai and, boom, another two hours are gone. Pretty soon after lunch it's time to go to a conversation class at 5:30 and afterwards it's dinner and chai
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