The Olympics are apparently in full swing now. Sitting here in India, you'd never know it. Not exactly a country suited for winter sports, India has just four athletes in…
Met some folks in Varanasi who are also doing a blog and figured I'd give them a shout out, even though there appears to be something wrong with their site…
India is a big country. It's easy to forget that. And then you try traveling here. Yesterday I departed Varanasi for Sikkim, waaaaay up north in the Himalayas. You might…
Here I am in Varanasi and death is in the air. It's not just a figure off speech. The heart of Hinduism on the banks of the Ganges, Varanasi is…
The other day (ok, it was a week ago at least but I've been a bit limited by Internet access in these parts) I was in Orchha and with the…
I went to my first Indian wedding last night. And what better place to do so than in India? Over and over I've heard that if you can make it…
Hampi is a city you build if you're looking to insulate yourself from marauding Muslims (and who isn't?). It is not a city you build if you are afraid of…
What if someone told you that you could go back in time and put yourself in pre-boom Silicon Valley, say around 1995? Think of the possibilities, the energy, the excitement. …
Language here in India often sounds different even when it's your own. I keep running into really great self-promotional statements and I figured I'd share one with you that I've…
Sometimes it's hard to comprehend what people will do for a pot. Yes, a pot. Granted, in many contests (or reality TV shows) where people risk life and limb, the…
I remember a few years ago I was driving down a main highway (at home in the US) the week after Thanksgiving and it seemed that every other car had…
Yesterday afternoon I met a guy and a few hours later he was pouring four liters of scented oil over me as he slowly ran his fingers through my hair.…
Sometimes when you're on the road, you just get swept up by your surroundings. Yesterday was one of those days for me. It was a day where I truly got…
Happy New Year. I got to 2006 a half day faster than I would have if I'd just stayed home. Yesterday I spent the day cruising the balmy, palmy backwaters…
One of the challenges of blogging this trip is trying to capture an experience that is hard to confine to the limited dimensions and senses of a computer screen. For…