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Two buses, one train, one rickshaw down. One bus, one taxi, three airplanes to go ( Read more... )

Departing Arambol in half an hour. Holding breath through the next five days. Please think happy-and-no-major-incident-no-major-delay thoughts for me. I'll feed the cows for luck and hopefully i'll arrive home within a reasonable time frame. Keep a little snow for me, I have yet to make a snow angel this year!

peace,
Meagan

So tonight after I ordered my chicken tikka and sat down at my candlelit table for a quiet moment under the dark sky speckled thickly with stars and the air filled with salt and roaring sea, a young man invited himself to sit down. I was slightly resentful of the intrusion on my solitude, but let it go. It turns out he's from Sudan and has been ( Read more... )

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In an ironic and surprising twist, I'm realizing that I prefer the company of the Indian people to the company of other foreigners. Something about India seems to bring out the worst in tourists. They seem to enjoy few things more than sitting in restaurants and complaining, loudly and in English, about everything wrong with India. The pushy ( Read more... )

Southern India is certainly affecting me and my ability to write. Everything is so mellow that I've slipped into that half dazed state myself. Well, not dazed, really, just so unworried. There's a feeling, a contentment, that I've become very familiar with down here. It occured to me a few nights ago on a regular sleeper train. It was hot and ( Read more... )

2nd Tier AC Train. Wow. The bed was big, big enough that I could have all my luggage in the bed with me AND I didn't have to cuddle with it. The gave me a comfy pillow. I wasn't woken up at the stops by the smell of sewage rotting on the tracks. The temperature was nearly the same the entire trip - I didn't know we were at a station by how the ( Read more... )

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