While rIAm was off meditating, Hari’s niece was in the midst of getting married. It was decided to bring me along, so I could experience some of an Indian wedding. Talk about making rIAm jealous!
Since we’d had some misunderstandings in the past about when certain plans were going to happen, I was careful to inquire [...]
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of matrimony (and manure)
Our time in Kutch has expired
jft and I are currently in Bhuj, awaiting the Kutch Express, which will take us to Ahmedabad, where we take another train to Jalgoan, to begin the south Indian portion of our adventure.
We headed to this city, the major one of the Kutch region of Gujarat, after we parted ways today with our lovely Nu [...]
it’s all farm for me
As we reached the crossroads where we bid our share taxi goodbye and waited for Hari, the farm manager, to pick us up, we spent a good deal of energy trying to communicate to the assembled locals that we didn’t need any of their rickshaws. Finally the message got through, and the local postman, mailbag [...]
back to the subcontinent
After what felt like whirlwind tour of Toronto and Chicago – it was wonderful to see so many people! – we’re back in India. It’s kind of hard to believe that between rIAm and myself we had at least 6 different blog ideas we wanted to write while home.
None happened.
rIAm did manage one post while [...]
Toronto = multicultural + nice and polite people
Toronto is whacking me over the head with its multiculturalism and its niceness.
I can say this because I am in Toronto. Whoops, did we forget to tell you? We are in North America for a few weeks, the original intention of returning to be here for my dear cugina’s (and maid of honour!) wedding celebration [...]
travelin’ companion
Our nearly 7 weeks in India have been an interesting mix of activity and rest, friendly faces and pushy vendors, solitude and companionship. We started by making new friends in Mumbai, and then landed in a slice of heaven on the farm in Gujarat.
You can visit the photos from our time on the farm here, [...]
this is normal – indian edition
In late April I made a post about common sights in southeast Asia. I even started, but never completed, a follow-up. But after 6 weeks and 2 days in India it seems time for an Indian edition.
This is a country where driving requires honking. This isn’t to say that there is always a reason to [...]
Free Tibet
While certainly a complicated issue, a few things are very simple.
1. Tibetans, most notably His Holiness the Dalai Lama, must live in exile in order to be free.
2. Many, many Tibetans flee, on foot (1 week – 2 months, over mountains and through extreme cold), to reach freedom.
3. China has not “liberated” Tibet at all, [...]
