I like riding in rickshaws. They are noisy, spew pollution, they feel like you’re riding a lawnmower at warp speed, the drivers are unequivocally insane, and every second you are riding in one, you know that you are in India. I like knowing that I’m in India. Where but in India would you find a [...]

We got our act together and were ready to go touring at about 11a (Ray and G style early morning start). We decided to check out the fort even though it hadn’t really been an intention to see anything in Bikaner more than the transport to take us to the rat temple, but the book [...]

Well, after a tumultuous week of writing, programming, rotating pictures, uploading pictures, and, occasionally avoiding camel spit, we have finally packed up and are on the move. We have reached new limits after last night’s incredibly comfortable “Sleeper Bus.” It was, for those who have experienced India, a public-bus-meets-second-class-sleeper-train type of ride. There were uncomfortably [...]

We stayed another 5 days in Pushkar after the camel fair had ended. We were (falsely) lured by the promise of an insanely fast connection at 200 kbps (all things being relative), and the prospect of actually being able to upload photos before we turned gray gave us the kick in the butt to get [...]

We effectively avoided or otherwise missed the scheduled events until the last day, when I wanted to go see the closing things. It’s tough to say if we got there too late or if maybe there was nothing much going on anyway (more “camel dances” if you will), but whatever we had just missed, there [...]