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The Tour plan rehashed

It has been a very long time since I last updated this blog and I should have been more regular I guess. Well, part of the good news is that the Tour is still on. The original tour was planned so that I go to all these places in one go. This turned out to be somewhat cumbersome. Partly because different places have different times when they're available for visitors. The weather also is different in different places and the Tour would either have been really difficult or a breeze accordingly. So, rather than choose and select the timing in a slot of 1 to 2 months, I thought it would be much better to do it over a longer time frame. This also lets me break up my tour in such a way that I extend it all the way upto the Astrosat launch early next year. It would be a great opportunity for me to watch that launch if not from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre then from a place nearby where I can get a good view. I have also finalised a good outline for the way things will pan out before, du