Haridwar to Barkot

 Uttarakhand still has libraries - not digital libraries, but brick and mortar ones. I rarely see one in our silicon city Bangalore. You can justify its absence by saying - we all have infinite, endless library on all topics imaginable, at our fingertips. In the form of our mobiles. You can also state the actual reason - nobody reads now - we all get our infinite wisdom from “shorts”.

The state is picturesque- your eyes will have a feast. And the road from Haridwar to Barkot follows river Yamuna. A river flows from mountain peak to ocean - to join its destination. We in our all wisdom go from mountain foothills to its peak - thinking we are somehow defying gravity. Or we fool ourselves that we are  king Bhageeratha who prayed for thousands of years to bring Ganga to earth. 

Through out the path, we see mountains on the opposite side and start believing we are going round and round around the same set of mountains. We may be foolish to do that, but not the river. What actually happens is the road has some hairpin curves in some places. 

Anyways the journey so far has been pleasant with nice meals, no chores, no walls to stare at 24X7.

Tomorrow we climb our first hill - Yamunotri