We’d been back in India for a month now, and on the go pretty much since Agra, where we’d spent four unintentionally lazy days acquainting ourselves with the marvelous Taj Mahal. For being only one month, it had held a LOT. There was Delhi with Diwali and the day of sight-seeing, Agra and my birthday [...]

We got up early and bade our great Couchsurfing host goodbye in the dark of the ridiculously early morning. We hopped a rickshaw to where the bus would soon arrive and waited in that now-familiar pre-boarding state of Is-this-where-I’m-supposed-to-be confusion. We learn slowly, but we do learn, so after enough launching rides at the backs [...]

And so we headed out by foot, wandering in the general direction of the Mehrangarh Fort, which sat perched atop the hill that rose majestically from the blue city. We meandered through the streets and made our way up the hill by foot, stopping to check out the Jaswant Thada, the beautiful marble memorial for [...]

I was glad that Ray had enjoyed his first couchsurfing stay, but I felt a little incomplete about it because while no couchsurfing stay is the same, since Dhanna’s accommodation was set up as a sort of hotel/guesthouse for caste reasons, this one had been very different from any other I’d ever had indeed. This [...]

There is something incredibly overwhelming about India. I’ve experienced it for almost 5 full months and I still can’t quite come to terms with how crazy insane, and crazy cool this place is. Maybe it’s the multitude of things going on, the busy-ness of everyday life, the crazy feel of a big city and its [...]