Our last stop was Dharamshala, 125 miles northeast of Amritsar - about a five hour car ride.

We were told that Richard Gere had recently stayed in our room.

Dharamshala is in Himachal Pradesh, in the Kangra Valley, against the spectacular Dhauladhar Range of the Himalayas.

Since 1959, it has been the home of the Dalai Lama, sometimes called "Little Lhasa." It has become one of the world's important centers of Tibetan Buddhist culture outside Tibet.

Glenna getting a little sun at the gardens of the Norbulingka Institute of Tibetan Culture, in Sidhpur, just outside Dharamshala.

We stayed at an older boutique hotel, right downtown.

Dharamshala combines Himalayan scenery, Tibetan Buddhism, Indian culture, and British colonial history.

It was a beautiful region in India and with maybe the best Indian food in the country

My shoe fell apart during the trip, and this shoe repairman glued it all back together in a few minutes