#bbc2leh

This incident happened on the third day of our Bangalore-Leh trip.

After two days and nearly 1500 kilometers of driving through rain and bad roads, our jeep was liberally coated with a mud. I love it that way! After driving for over an hour in Rajasthan, and seeing all the colorful vehicles and people, we too were bitten by the color bug. So, like last time, we stopped to buy (what I will call) pompoms and scarves for the jeep. We bought a pair of pompoms and scarves from one of the many stalls on the highway, but we soon felt that we needed more. So we stopped again at a shop creatively named Radium in Bhilwara on NH79. This was run by a two brothers (lets call them Radium 1 and Radium 2) who had one shop each.

Pompoms and scarves

Radium 1 sold the scarves to Chandu and Thomas. While we were fixing the scarves, we noticed that the truck behind us was being decorated with stickers. We were all in a wacky mood and decided then and there on a "trip sticker." We decided to go with our Twitter hash tag, #bbc2leh. Radium 1 was standing there when this was happening and we asked him for a quote. He quoted 150 rupees and we agreed. As Radium 1's PC was down, we went to Radium 2's shop.

The Radium Lab was equipped with a PC and a large-format sticker cutter. The operator was a quick teenager who used keyboard shortcuts for everything. He was so quick, that the sticker was ready in less than 10 minutes.

Radium lab

Sticker being designed

Sticker being pasted

The "look"

We loved the entire experience and so did the Radium crew.