Our third night in India. Wow. We've done so much acclimating that it feels like we've been here much longer. Already we've traveled by auto-rickshaw, taxi and train. We’ve eaten with our hands, befriended fellow travelers, and learned to look the reverse directions when crossing a street. We’ve been blessed by an elephant. I’ve purchased a salwar kameez (pants, tunic and scarf outfit). And we’ve learned a few Berenstein Bears-esque “here’s what not to do” lessons… Our first day in India, we got in from the red-eye, cleaned up a bit and stubbornly went out on foot at about 11 am to the train station 4 km away to secure the next day’s ticket, and to see Thiruvananthapuram / Trivandrum while we were at it. Ineptly following directions, utterly clueless, and without a street sign in
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