Archive for August, 2009

Already blogging badly!

  • August 26th, 2009
  • Posted in Musings

I made it to Srinigar in Kashmir after a long, hectic journey by share jeep.  I’ll fill in some details on that soon but for now the internet is a little too slow to upload all my photos, etc. so this is just an update post to say that I’m here and I’m safe.  I’m [ READ MORE ]

Monsoon Madness

  • August 25th, 2009
  • Posted in Events

t had not rained at all since I arrived in Delhi which was surprising because it’s still monsoon season here.  Well, that certainly changed today. Around 1 PM it started to rain and it was a thick heavy rain.  Puddles started to show up and muck everything up.  Around 3 PM what seemed like heavy rain [ READ MORE ]

My bags are my children

  • August 20th, 2009
  • Posted in Musings

One of them clings to my back while the other holds my hand as I walk.  My bags will be right with me for the next two years and I have to protect them.  But unlike kids, I get to choose them and control what they are filled up with.  Here’s what I chose and [ READ MORE ]

Day One in Delhi – Humayun’s Tomb and India Gate

  • August 20th, 2009
  • Posted in Sights

y first night in Delhi consisted of me arriving relatively late by plane and taking a long cab ride to a luxury hotel in the dark.  So I didn’t see much of anything.  The next day I woke up intent on exploring.  I chose Humayun’s Tomb as my first stop.  Wikipedia describes Humayun’s Tomb like [ READ MORE ]

14 hours? It felt like 4.

My flight from Chicago to New Delhi was 14 hours long and I was worried that it would be awful, so I used some extra miles to upgrade to business class. It turned out the flight was almost empty so I had a whole row to myself.  Not that it matters because these international business class [ READ MORE ]

The Plan is a Process

  • August 18th, 2009
  • Posted in Musings

When I tell people about this trip, a lot of them ask me what my plan is.  Where am I going exactly?  What will I see?  Where will I stay?  It’s funny to say that I’m traveling for two years and then say that I really have no plan at all.  But it’s true.  I [ READ MORE ]

Two years in India and China

  • August 16th, 2009
  • Posted in Musings

Modern India and China are fascinating enigmas to me.  Encompassing a huge percentage of the world’s abject poverty, they trace their origins back to some of the greatest and oldest civilizations on Earth.  India turned back Alexander the Great on his quest to conquer his way to the ends of the earth.  China built huge [ READ MORE ]

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