Bird’s eye view: My biographer would be giving a party today, if not standing a beer at a bar, since his protégés crossed 100 kms again today. 110 kms, to be exact. But we took 6.5 hours doing it. Two stops even before leaving Ranikhet. That’s slightly unusual, because our normal trend is to hightail it out of town once we have paid the bill, like the visiting gunslinger who has accidentally shot three people in the pub while debating the superiority of Remington over Colt. But more of that later. We also took a slightly longer route. For those of you born with Google map on their palms instead of lifelines (like me), there are two major ways to go from Ranikhet to Kausani. One retraces steps to Majkhali, veers off north-east to meet the Someshwar-Almora road then turns north and goes past Someshwar to Kausani. The other longer, infrequently used, and more scenic route goes north from Ranikhet to Paithani, turns east and runs past Dwarahat, and at Someshwar, turns north a...