Hello all. It's been a few weeks since you've received any blogs of my travels. It's b/c I've been stationary for nearly a month in rishikesh. What a beautiful city! 1 of the 4 holy cities of Indian pilgrimages. anyhow, I've been running around hiking up to small villages, waterfalls, swimming in the ganges, meditating, reading, etc. It's been absolutely perfect & divine. But sadly to say, there was a young Turkish boy that checked out of the ashram the day before. And later that day, he was taken by mother Gange....pulled under the current & never came up. A neighbor witnessed it, but too late to do anything. All of his supposed friends refused to go w/farid (my extremely handsome iranian neighbor) to the police station b/c they wanted to have dinner. =( He is
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