Well, it got Kevin, but not me, not yet. And it of curse had to happen the night before we leave at 7:30am the next morning on a train for 8 1/2 hours! Of course!!! So to make a long story short, Kevin picked up some bug that had him puking all night and feeling like he would be better off dead... but its nothing some hardcore antibiotics couldn't fix! But after looking like a ghost all night, he finally got some color back in the morning and was holding down granola bars through a bit of the day... then he [View Full Entry]

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So we flew out of Delhi yesterday on IndiGo Airlines and arrived in Chennai, which is down south in Tamil Nadu, a southeastern coastal state (with much hotter and more humid weather than Delhi, which got pretty cold at night). We've had a few surprises. First, IndiGo Airlines is a local "budget" airline, and my last experience in India with budget flights was literally scary to say the least! (It was a combination of a lightning storm, intense turbulance, and being in a plane that had to be 30-40 years old... the walls of the plane visibly shaking, the wings of [View Full Entry]

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Well, its day two and all is well! We arrived yesterday morning, and by the evening it had all came back to me... the walk, the talk, the... everything! Except I had really forgotten how clever the Kashmiri salesmen are. They dress the best, the always look sharp, they speak the best English (as well as like five other languages), and they are the hardest to get rid of!! You feel like you should trust them, and they always say the right things, but they're the ones to stay the farthest from! Well, it took me a while to get my [View Full Entry]

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I'll keep this short (ha!! like I ever do!)... I leave tomorrow with a good friend, Kevin, and a new friend we met online as a travel partner, John, as we embark on a two month journey through India and Nepal (Kathmandu Valley). It is my second trip to these areas, but the first for both Kevin and John... so by default I'm kind of the group leader... and if you knew me, you'd be scared! OK, not really, but I have no doubts that this will be an interesting trip! (As my mom has told me many times, Mercury is [View Full Entry]

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