Archive for January, 2010

Pushkar

Brahma dropped a lotus flower on the earth and a shitload of people decided to have a camel fair in Pushkar.  This camel fair was nuts.  There are thousands of camels, hundreds of thousands of people in this tiny town for this crazy thing that lasts 10 days.  I had to come after watching Michael [ READ MORE ]

Jodhpur

n Jodhpur I had a really great cup of cappucino. … That’s it.  That’s pretty much all I could come up with to write about Jodhpur.  It’s a great city to visit.  It has a nice fort with a good audio guide, a palace with a hotel in it, a beautiful mausoleum and an atmospheric old city.  [ READ MORE ]

Dreams and the desert of reality

As I sleep in the upper berth on the twenty hour train ride to Jaisalmer, I wake to a massive cacophony of English language wasted energy.  Two English women, a mother and daughter team, are trying to fit three massive bags into the smallish compartment area while shouting and complaining at each other at high [ READ MORE ]

Delhi Diwali

In Delhi for Diwali, I walk down the street as the chaotic launch of fireworks  continues for hours from every direction.  One of the most popular directions seems to be “five feet from the foreigner’s leg.”  After the first hundred or so, I cease to stop, drop and roll at each explosion.  But I do [ READ MORE ]

The World is Flat Out Creepy

s the touts and tourist prices of Agra fade with my anger into memory, I find myself on a government bus to Jaipur crammed into a seat next to a skinny young Indian man.  He is on his way to take a test to become a police commander and he has questions for a white [ READ MORE ]

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