Penny and her new friends Gitangali, and Chintu, just before we left Sangareddi |
Gitangali goes to an English medium school and Chintu is working on her Telegu |
We had a few errands to do and pretty soon it seemed like the whole town knew we were in Sangareddi. Penny is trying to avoid the crowd by staying next to the tailor that was sewing her PeaceBike flag and I decided to record the moment. This is only about half of the crowd that was watching us the entire time we were there |
As we headed out of Sangareddi we were joined by a number of local cyclists who either hopped on their bikes to talk with us or were going the same direction anyway |
These women were farming but when we stopped to ask for directions they gathered around Penny. It seemed that they were sharing advice but our Telegu was not so good. However, both parties did a lot of smiling |
Penny enjoys some gum from the US as she rides. There was very little traffic on this quiet, well-paved road, a rare combination |
We were unsure whether or not these approaching cows were going to stampede towards us but we decided to take a picture with these shepherds and local kids anyway |
Passing through one small village ended in a kids' fun-run. They kept up with us for a few hundred meters and then we kept calling "tata" back and forth |
PeaceBiker Penny completes her first 100 kms on a back road going towards Bidar, Karnataka, India. Congratulations Penny! |
The building behind Penny is where we stayed the night before. We knew only a few words of Telegu but between a few knowing some Hindi and our Hindi phrasebook we were able to communicate that we were looking for a place to stay. We were taken to this community building which was the office for the president of the village |
At least two of the small villages that we passed through between Sangareddi, Andra Pradesh and Bidar, Karnataka had these old turret-like structures. We did not know enough Telegu to ask what they were |
On this day our beautiful road seemed to disappear into muddy potholes. This continued for a few kilometers and then we were back to a fairly well paved road |