-- Kathmandu

The chronicle of the purchase of the Michelin tires 14.00R20XZL still continued during a long week to obtain their supply without tube (they are tubeless). The Radials International agent wanted to sell them to me TTF (Tyre, Tube and Flap). Moreover, I still did not have the address of the agent in Bangalore. I end up believing that it was covered by the secrecy defence. Finally last disappointment, the deposit could not install them. Six weeks to discover that these tires are available in India!!! This file is not closed, deal to be followed.
For whatever purpose it may serve, the agent address is indicated in the “Information” page of the above menu bar. On the other hand, with regard to Michelin India, I cannot that to mention email address of my correspondent, the postal address and the telephone number are undoubtedly secret defence for a private individual.

The localization of the Radials International Warehouse in Bangalore involves a modification of the road plan in two points: Detour by Hyderabad and Bangalore before arriving in Chennai, suppression of the trip to Mumbai, justified before finding tires, to go directly to the caves of Ellora and Ajanta, see the "Presentation" page of the menu bar.

The carpenter of Globus Enterprises carried out a support, cradle, for the laptop, in particular for the screen, more rigid that the original support by Jotto Desk at a cost of approximately 12 euros.

During these eleven weeks, I twice a day went to raise my electronic mailbox in various cybercafés in Thamel. I noted that the response time was long and sometimes very long 13 to 15 minutes to reach the list of the received messages and to send one of them as much. Admittedly, the transmission chain is long. The observation of Yahoo and MSN made me think that this slowness proceeded at least of two factors: The international connection was to be overloaded, the Orange/Wanadoo software was not installed on the computers with the difference of Yahoo and especially of MSN more used in instantaneous mail.

During my stay of more than two months in KTM, time passed very quickly, reading, cybercafés, visiting the valley, meetings of travellers, service of my truck, administrative steps… I profited from an exceptional sunning with a diurnal temperature between 20° and 24°C and a night temperature from 0° to 9°C. The valley of KTM is at an average altitude of 1300 meters and roughly at the latitude of Casablanca.

I left the Scouts parking the 13/12 to install me at Janashakti Auto Workshop in order to make wash my truck still in charge of the mud of Tibet and cover of two-month dust of the windy valley of Kathmandu.

I left the 14/12 early in the morning to progress towards the Nepal Indian border with the objective to cross it at the end of the morning of the 15/12. The road plan envisaged the festivals of Christmas in Kolkata.