Bird’s eye view: A straight drive (a la Rohit Sharma) of 350 km today, leaving at 7.00 am, reaching our Homestay at 2.00 pm post-lunch. Nothing to complain of. Yesterday we had passed through Jharkhand and entered Bihar. Today we entered UP. As we passed from J to B, the rough patches on the highway started showing up a bit. I mean, we would have a stretch of silky three-lane highway for a while, and then suddenly start jumping about amongst patchworks and potholes. Average speed was less than 50 kmph. Our Tata Punch has a slightly hard suspension, so it is quite at home over rough patches. Weather was hazy, much to the chagrin of Panna, our official photographer, who likes her pictures to be as crisp as British bacon. Leaving Bodh Gaya (7.00 am): Today, there was no cousin to dish out emotional blackmail, so we left on the dot. We had a very pleasant run till 9.00 am, when we simply stopped at a locality called Kans and popped into - hol...