The 3rd should be the last

In Agonda I get an email from Jeff, one from Carrol and one from Dan and Charlotte saying that they were in Hampi. Great! I should go there and try to catch up with them. When I first heard of this, I had not spend enough time with Carro to know there were things I would not stand from her too long. She also wanted to go to Hampi, and so we decided to go together.

Hampi was a place to be seen, and everyone talked really nice about it. Though my original plan was to keep on south and skip Hampi, the idea of familiar faces and another environment with no drugs involved appealed to me.

And so, the third mistake.

I felt again out of place in Hampi. Carro had some Swedish friends there, but I had only caught up with Jeff for a couple of days, Hugh for a couple of minutes, and the rest I had missed. Jeff told me Dan and Charlotte where on their way to Varanasi. Carrol was already in Bangalore on her one month meditation and yoga course.

Hanging around with Carro and her friends was more than boring. It always happens when you're in a group of people of the same country. Israelis seem to be the worst so far on this matter. Furthermore, my host was the last person to make an effort to speak in English. No point in spending my time with them. So I went my way and avoided them as much as I could and met new people. However, I had to force the situation, feeling sometimes uncomfortable. The group I met were very nice and friendly, but it was a group already formed, and getting in is not easy.

Another mistake had been made as I had not made a decision on what I really wanted to do, maybe, cause I didn't really know. I had been at a loss for some time I guess. I had gone to Hampi searching for familiar faces to find balance again in a new surrounding. I missed it, and as an end, my time in Hampi wasn't as everyone had talked about it.

The worst thing is that in Hampi I had changed my expected itinerary allowing me to go to Hampi later on, in a more reasonable route. But this shall be explained in another post.