We got ready had breakfast and left the hotel by 8:45 am. We walked out of the town and reached wooded area quickly. Weather was beautiful. Not too cold at all. As we walked we received three invitations for lunch. One gentleman stopped and gave us fresh milk that he was taking to the marketer to sell. I even asked him in the milk should be boiled and he no it is fresh and strained. We both had the milk. It was cold and tasted very cream and rich.We walked for some more time. Around 1:00 pm we got in the car and drove to the school where we were invited for lunch earlier. When we got the village, we stopped at the primary school where they had already served lunch for the little students and teachers. One of the teachers said he can have food made for us. But there is a middle school next door where food will be served soon. We could go there. We decided to go there instead of having them make more food. When we got there they were happy to serve us lunch. Today lunch was Rice and Potato Subjji. As we were having
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teachers from the high school next door came and greeted us. These are the teachers who had stopped and invited us. They asked us to come to the high school after we finished our lunch. They were hanging around near by just to make sure we visited their school. They all were thrilled to have Parikramavasis in their school. When the Principal learned that Baiju is in Technology sector, he asked if Baiju could say few words to the students regarding Technology. Baiju was more than happy to do so. Immediately the students were gathered in the grounds we were introduced. Baiju spoke for about ten minutes. We hoped that the students understood something out of the talk. The teachers had Tea ready for us after the talk. We finished Tea and talked to the teachers for few minutes and started our walk again. We walked till 4:30 pm and got in the car to find an ashram. We drove for an hour and came to Ghansor village. There was a Dharmashala Right off of the main road. As we were looking around one person came and told us we could stay. We enquirer about bathroom and he said you can go in the open field beyond that tree point in one direction. We were wondering what to do. Then he said we can use the bathroom in someone’s house. I checked it out. At least it was clean. It had to climb two flights of stairs to get to it. In the mean time Sunilji went deeper in the village and found aRam Mandir with Dharmashala attached. It was clean enough and the bathroom room was ok and in the same building. We settled in there. We walked through couple of streets where shops were open. Baiju found mini Vaseline (we have been using it for our feet everyday) bottles and a belt. The shop where we got the belt we also got some Tea. The young shopkeeper said we should give him an opportunity to do seva. By this time it was almost 7:00 pm. Next to the Ram Mandir there was Shirdi Sai Baba and Satya Sai Baba Mandir. Being Thursday they had Bhajans from 7:00 to 8:00 pm. I went there while Baiju attended to his work call. By the time Bhajans finished dinner was ready. There three separate packages one for each one of us. Too much food. We could not finish it. But the food did not go to waste. A cow was going by. I fed her the rotis and rice. Of course she wanted more and was trying to dig into the Bag. I had to close the gate for her to move on. We got to sleep soon after that. Today we walked 23 kms.
