Few days out in the sticks. Worst roads I've ever driven on. Hours on end of single lane or less with huge potholes makes for rough and slow ride. Trucker strike so having trouble finding fuel. Needless, we're now in good shape and at Ranchi and in a fairly good hotel and just ate a bunch of food. I had GI problems and my solution was to pop an Immodium and not eat for a few days, so now am finally full and super tired. This town has the rudest people yet and is dark and dirty and all I want to do is go to bed. Mark and Mike already did, but Brit and I decided to find an internet cafe and check our route out of town. We are on our third battery now due to the rough roads displacing our second battery in the rickshaw, but it's a motorcycle battery and not enough juice for the horn, which makes everything sketchy. Also had a flat this morning. Thankfully bought an additional 10 liter fuel jug though so have enough for all of tomorrow. Should almost hit the Ganges by then. Map is somewhat updated, but the internet was too slow to be able to draw the path, but it was mostly NH201. NH 43, and 23. Stayed last night in Jhardugusa or something like that, which on our map looked like a town on a lake, but in reality was an industrial town surrounded by coal mines, steel mills, and power plants. Worst polution I've ever seen, and the cutest receptionist at our hotel ever. - Grant