Day four? Its all running together now.:)

I have now been though such an experience that anything extra is just pure bonus. I feel that if I left for home tonight I would be complete with this journey. I have read the birthday wishes from friends and family and they are bringing me to tears. I love all of you and thank you for being part of my family.
Last night another American arrived in our camp. So I offered to have him tour with me on that day. Mike was his name and he had a recent break up with his girlfriend so India was his choice to take a break from life in the USA. Mike was a really nice guy and I was glad to have him with me on this day. We had a slow morning and made our way in to Hari Ki pouri. We had a great morning, walking through town meeting swami’s and taking lots of images. In the afternoon we made our way to the Shiva statue which is like 15 stories high. While there we took some shots and talked to a very kind sadhu who gave us a banana and shared his thoughts. We were unsure of his intentions
, but her turned out to be very kind. Then we made our way to the Maharaj camps. Of course the way this pilgrimage is set up I couldn't find the exact place where I wanted to go. So we were on this walk through a lesser established camp. This was truly a bit out of the way, but while walking I spotted some Naga’s in a tent and decided to approach them. they welcomed us and we sat and conversed for a while about our lives. Of course much of the communication is in broken English, but its great because we make a good connection and its was really welcoming. Mike and the sadhus had a smoke and asked me why I was not joining. I told them because I am a yogi and it was not my path. Then suddenly the one Naga started doing some very advanced poses. So i decided to show him that i was also doing yoga and posed in my version of yogi vadranasana. There was some back and forth showing poses and I ended with scorpion and it felt great! We had a little crowd watching us and what an experience. WOW! Mike said I just earned street credit with the baba’s. We left there and Mike said that was probably the coolest thing he was ever a part of. I felt grace and peace for this experience. We headed to the Evening aarti at Hari Ki pouri to end our evening. But…after the Aarti the police had blocked the streets and getting out of there was really difficult. The traffic had increased about 5 times what it was yesterday being it the day before the royal bath. We walked like 6 KM to the place where we wanted to catch an auto-rickshaw, but the driver took us the wrong direction and then picked up a family and there were like 12 people in this 4 person rickshaw. We tried to stop the driver and with no luck we were now like 20KM or 12 miles from our camp and it was getting late. AHHH!. So we found a bike rickshaw and he dropped us at the Hari Ki pouri Ghat. From there we had to walk like 6 KM to get another auto R and finally get back to camp. What a journey. The rest of the camp was going to get up at 2am and go watch the sadhus bathe. Its their turn to do it on the holy bathing days. I choose not to and found that we all had a similar experience on the holy bathing day.