Driving day 2 & Arambol

To summarize day 1:

km: 369
police checks: 2
bribes: 0
documents wanted: driver's license 1x
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Day two started off easy on highway 17 but around Ratnagiri I couldn't wait any longer and wanted to see the ocean, so I headed East until I found it and then south on some obscure little roads all the way to Rajapur where I found highway 17 again. This took a lot of time and it got dark shortly before I crossed the border into Goa, which was no problem at all.

The roads were easy on me and the bike, as expected even though traffic on the 17 was a bit annoying sometimes. A bigger problem was finding Arambol... the people along the highway all sent me to Mapusa to get directions, which is some 40km in the wrong way. So I took my chances and drove down the next road leaving highway 17 to the right. After going through Pernem and some villages I finally arrived in Harmle, next to Arambol. There I met Amar and bam! I had a room for the night!


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So day two we have:

km: 400
police checks: 1
bribes: 0
documents wanted: 0
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Right now I'm stuck in Arambol waiting for new front brakes. Somehow there is some air in places where it shouldn't be and they got stuck, blocking the wheel...
They are coming in from Mapusa and will cost a whoopin' 1750rs (+ installation)

Then, either late in the afternoon or tomorrow morning, I'll be off to Agonda, where there is less trouble. Arambol has become a bit weird. There is almost exclusively Israeli and Russian people here, and many of them with small kids. This is definitely not the place for kids. In the first two weeks of November alone 4 people died of drug abuse and 2 days ago a girl was raped on the beach next to sweet lake.
It is time to get out of here. Breakfast is waiting.