[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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]