[ngfilename filename='P1120198.JPG'] It was a long train ride and despite leaving at daybreak, night had fallen by the time we arrived in Jalgaon. Fortunately, the most recent addition to our train bench was a helpful young Indian who lead us to our desired hotel which was a laughably close distance from the station – laughable [...]

Once we sorted out our home in Surat for the day, we crashed out on the bed to sleep off our fitful night of space exploration on the night bus from Udaipur. We got up about 3p and inquired at the front desk where none of the five men crowded around the desk spoke much [...]

At about 6:30 this morning, just after I had made it into a euphoric dreamstate, I was awoken by two things. The first: my head slamming six inches into a thankfully-cushioned mattress and the second, a bunch of squeaky Hindi voices barking something down the bus aisleway. What they said, I’m not sure, but if [...]

5:16pm Bit of a debacle, today was. So last night we went for our 8p check-in for our 8:30p bus, which then turned into an 8:30p check-in for our 8:45p bus, which I think ultimately became a 9:15p departure. India! But the fun started when we got on board and started looking for our sleeper, [...]

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 [...]