Riding an elephant in India

November 16, 2013
It's not like I wasn't apprehensive about riding an elephant--they're big and high off the ground.  And a story our guide told us as we drove out of the city limits of...
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India: smiling, happy people

November 15, 2013
The Indian people we have encountered along this journey are some of the happiest, sweetest, nicest I’ve met in my travels, always smiling and wanting to help you. The...
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Zoroastrian funeral rituals are…very different

November 15, 2013
We visited the hanging gardens in Mumbai, expecting something like a “wonder of the world.” Naah. Not much to see. Then, our special Mumbai guide, a beautiful...
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Washeteria, Mumbai-style

November 11, 2013
 We’re told that most middle class people have washers and dryers in their homes, but choose to send their laundry out, because it’s so inexpensive and takes only...
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Mumbai Dispatch: Best Exotic Scariest Vacation + Other Thin

November 9, 2013
Photo Credit Some thoughts after watching armed guards search our car for bombs. I started traveling outside North America at the relatively advanced age of 40 with...
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Anticipation: a taste of what’s to come

November 8, 2013
Anticipation is half the pleasure of travel. The planning and then each step of the journey. I love anticipation. My excitement always begins with signs that our...
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Mumbai airport slum: reality bites

November 8, 2013
Photo credit and news story Day 1: Landed Mumbai at 1:30am Friday, Nov. 8, 2013. We are 13.5 hours ahead of Pacific time. It’s not like I wasn’t expecting it, but...
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Travel journal: India, the Sub-continent page 1

November 6, 2013
There was a day when writers kept beautiful, leather-bound and corded travel journals.  Even the act of opening them seemed imbued with the exotic.  I can't say that...
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Camels, tents & the Pushkar Camel Fair

February 22, 2013
Billed as India's largest tribal gathering, the Pushkar Camel Fair is held in November during the Kartik Purnima full moon.  It's been called "a spectacle on an epic...
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Seductive India draws me like a magnet

June 12, 2012
India's rich culture, spiritual underpinnings and history have always meant exotic. The people. The heat, the noise, the confusion, the food and, maybe even the smells...
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