Tomorrow is my last full day in India. It is hard to think about leaving this beautiful and chaotic and serene and noisy and friendly and especially now, hot country, however, I’m feeling so blessed about my time and fulfilled. I’m in the massive city of Mumbai (20+ million people) staying with some friends I met in Calcutta. [...]
Archive for March, 2007
color
25Mar07I met my buddy Sean at the end of Feb. in Jaipur. There we experienced something called the Elephant Festival and on the following day, Holi Festival, which is also know as the Color Festival. The Elephant Festival is geared toward tourist, but Holi is for the locals. Many people drink way too much (early in the day) and [...]
howrah station
08Mar07While I was in Calcutta I spent about seven days at the Howrah Train Station–which is the largest train station in India. Many kids live there and most say they have escaped some pretty horrible living conditions. I heard stories of how they where beaten by their parent(s)–now the police at the station are the [...]
quick update from Jaipur
02Mar07I moved from Calcutta to Jaipur on Tuesday the 27th to meet my good friend Sean Flanigan who is joining me for a few days. We are having great experiences in Jaipur and meeting all kinds of people. We took a trip to Pushkar today where some 500 temples are built near the ‘holy’ Lake [...]
