food cost varies as lots of really little local joints have patrons who refuse to pay more than 20 cents for filling breakfast. Most dinners / lunches that fill the 2 of us up are 3-8 dollars. And if it's 8 bucks its generally high quality fish or a pretty fancy joint. The most expensive and classy meal we had cost us 11 dollars and it was in a swank hotel restaurant and they even had a snobby maitre D. (worst service in the continent though)
re Bangaluru and Mysore :) It looks like you two are enjoying a lot of beautiful things and time together. Do y'all plan everything out in advance? I mean, like the things you'll be going to see... Is it still surprising to do it that way? I like the idea of Jenna being all excited at the rail museum ^_^
I'm really surprised you haven't said anything about getting horrendously sick off the food or water yet. If this has yet to happen, i am truly inspired! If any of my friends have guts of iron, it'd be you two.
Peace!
- amelia
Great Train Photos Looks like the train museum was a great visiting place and the butterfly/bird place looked beautiful too from the few photos you had time to share. (Our holiday too is moving to unexpected places...)
How much? So how much does the hut cost? Food prices?
I am enjoying your trip reports. More would be nice but I know how hard it is to find internet places and time.
Amazing Neat to hear about but the thought of dealing with so much noise and so many people will give me nightmares tonight. Our trip to Holland fell through due to the Iceland volcano so we are up near Algonquin and the trail was crowded yesterday. We saw at least 10 other people and listened to birds most of the afternoon. Cheers,
Dean
food riots Apparently there are riots going on in a few places in India regarding increases in food prices, citing anger with government policies.
Hope you are doing well.
--Kenneth
getting lost ooh my friends, getting lost is just part of the adventure of travelling!!! I remember getting lost in korea and not being able to find my house at first.... and also in chaing mai (northern thailand) when I rented a bike for a day :D hehehe I'm glad you found your way home!!!
the ants frighten me more now than ever Ants are seirously taking over this land... they have been in every room we stayed in and most restaurants. Those hills are about 1-2 cubic metres in size but who knows how far down they go. They have begun with india and soon... the world.
Good to hear about pirate/ninja; starting him off right!
We are going to a kalari to study for one month and we start in april 24th. 530-7 am and 7-9pm are the class times cause of the intense heat but we have our days free even though its typically too hot to do much although we tend to, for silly reasons, be hiking at that time often.
I have a DVD that i'll send home of all our pics so far. I am sending one to you and one to my mom. hopefully they dont snap in transit so first i am going to upload them all online in FULL rez. so i don't lose anything.
internet cafe is closing .. gotta jet!
be well friend
Dang, now *that* is an anthill The best India stories I hear always seem to start with renting a sketchy motorbike. Doubt you two will have much trouble in traffic back home after all this.
Everyone back here is doing pretty well, other than the skydragon, which is in money trouble (again). It's getting up to early summer temperatures now - I was sweating today in a thermal.Galen had a pirate/ninja birthday party - he's walking better and better all the time, and just managed to call my mom on a cell phone. It's still just Ke
Kenneth and I in the house, but we've been doing a lot of work on it, like reinforcing/insuating the front door etc, and the flag's back up.
I keep reading and watching stuff about Kalarippayatu - unbelievable - can you guys get some pictures of an Urumi demonstration?
Contact . . . Finally Hello,
Finally got your travel blog address after many times asking. Looks like you have done some major travels already. I am keen to go back to see past blogs but thought I would let you know that I am finally reading.
Your motor scooter adventure sounded neat. Reminds me, in a strange way, of my first scooter ride. A friend gave me a scooter but had to do it in a hurry as he was leaving London, England in an hour. Don't remember how that happened but there I was in the middle of London with a scooter that he had time only to tell me how to start and change gears. I had never traveled on a scooter. I had never been out of the centre of London on land, only by subway. I was living in a house in the country north of London and had to get there somehow or abandon the scooter. I made it. Slowly and without killing my self but was so shaken that I did not get on the scooter again.
Dean
Sounds about right. Oh man, that sounds like my own personal hell. I know that life will in time teach me to live with squalor, but at the moment it still really fucks with me. I guess that's why I usually travel to places with low population density, next stop The Arran Islands!
I'm in your debt for updating so regularly, it brightens a rainy March day to think of you guys kickin' it on a beach in India.
Oh my GOSH! Looks like you two are having so much fun. You'll be happy to know our house now has kombucha and kraut. starting on bread and beer soon, and making our house much more water efficient!
I'm really enjoying the blog, thanks for doing it this way!
caves? Hey! Jenna! That's a very cute cow. You both look very happy to be there, and it sounds like you're having oodles of fun :) If fun comes in oodles -- i wonder how many cups that is... anyway! It's very nice to hear from you folk. Stanley and I were just learning about caves on Sunday. Y'all should try to get out to the Gomantong Caves in Malaysia! They're filled with these like 30 ft guano deposits which are covered in cockroaches that live off the gauno and the bats who fall into it! (Imagine being eaten alive by cockroaches, drowning in a pile of your own shit!... wait, don't! That's terrible! LOL!) They're also the home of these little birds called swiftlets who make their nests from their own saliva. And then people come and harvest the nests and make soup out of them. lol! I highly encourage you to go! :) Hope you're well!
WoW. Keep up the great blog. Hello Jenna and Brian. Keep up the great writing and pics. It's almost like being there....without the noise and the smell. It must be great to talk to so many new people. All is well here. Keep exploring...and writing. Love, Mom.
hot damn! sounds like a pretty wild place to be, especially when the craziest city i've ever really known is toronto. big love to you kids, and keep us posted with your adventures.
Update! Revised Southeast Asia Route
India: check. Up, down and all around.
Malaysia part1: done. beaches, farms and fun.
Thailand part 1: down. Crags, curry and rain.
Lao: Laid back and loved it.
Vietnam: we became half human, half noodle but left early as we weren't having fun
Cambodia: as awe inspiringly beautiful as it was socially depressing. Either way Cambodia Rocked.
Thailand Part 2: Soaked up sun in the land of smiles
Sumatera, Indo: It's rough in the jungle, and friggin beautiful
Bali, Indo: This place makes you feel like a dirty rotten tourist (but its uber pr... full info
beetboxer
Ladventure of Brian and Jenna
food cost varies as lots of really little local joints have patrons who refuse to pay more than 20 cents for filling breakfast. Most dinners / lunches that fill the 2 of us up are 3-8 dollars. And if it's 8 bucks its generally high quality fish or a pretty fancy joint. The most expensive and classy meal we had cost us 11 dollars and it was in a swank hotel restaurant and they even had a snobby maitre D. (worst service in the continent though)