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Slow Boat Down the Ganges Update 6 The onions are taking forever to dehydrate. It has already been more than twenty hours and they are still moist. I need them bone dry and flaky, to prevent them from going rancid. Another four or five hours I think, before they are well and truly done. With…

Slow Boat Down the Ganges Update 5 15 hours and one night later, this is what came out from the dehydrator. What you see in the picture on the left is dehydrated potatoes that came out of two kilos of fresh ones. This is less than 200 grams, and will not spoil … till well…

Slow Boat Down the Ganges Update 4 The potatoes are chopped, blanched and ready to go into the dehydrator. I have 3kg ready to go, but I suspect I will need a couple of kilos more to last me the duration of the journey. I have dehydrated potatoes before, and I have not blanched them….

Slow Boat Down the Ganges Update 3 What is keeping me awake in the day (I seldom sleep at night!) is my inverter. I have to quickly think of a contingency in case the Goal Zero inverter continues to misbehave. What came as a Godsend today was my friend Dhruv Dudeja. We were chatting and…

Slow Boat Down the Ganges Update 2 This is the first of the (daily?) blog posts that I will be writing on and about A Slow Boat Down the Ganges. It is exactly 26 days to go before the canoe hits the waters near Haridwar and starts the journey down the holy Ganges, to end…

Slow Boat Down the Ganges Update 1 After multiple days, weeks and months poring over Google Maps and speaking to numerous people, a tentative itinerary has been drawn up, a wish list of the daily distance I want to paddle and the intended night halt destination. Even though the proposed itinerary shows 45 days, there…