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July 31, 2002ShimlaJuly 31-August 4 2002 The last few days I have been fighting some sort of strange malady...raging sore throat, red spots on the tops of my feet and the underside...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on July 31, 2002 02:55 AM
TrackBack | Category: Best Places, Food, India, Touching Experiences Rickshaw Driving LessonAfter dinner, Bob entertains the nearby date sellers by dickering aggressively with another rickshaw driver who makes the mistake of saying to Bob “You are rich man-why can’t you give...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on July 31, 2002 02:50 AM
TrackBack | Category: Alternative Transportation, Culture, Food, India, Touching Experiences July 30, 2002Death of the Vice PresidentSaturday morning the revered Vice President of India, Krishan Kant had had a massive heart attack and died so Sunday afternoon Bob and I watched the building of the funeral...Read this update Surface CultureIndia’s spirituality is strong and is seemingly integrated with it’s culture. So this is the first country we have been in that has resisted becoming westernized...at least on the surface...no...Read this update Bargaining for a RickshawOur last night in Delhi before taking the train to a cooler Shimla in the mountains for a few days, we strike out in the worst part of the day...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on July 30, 2002 02:45 AM
TrackBack | Category: Alternative Transportation, Food, India July 27, 2002Traveling India Bob-StyleThe Indians have a wonderful sense of humor so Bob takes advantage of it and manages to turn everything upside down wherever we go. In addition to an auto-rickshaw, India...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on July 27, 2002 11:43 PM
TrackBack | Category: Alternative Transportation, Bob's Blogs, Funniest Experiences, India, Touching Experiences New DelhiJuly 27-30 The hotel arranged to have us taken to the railway station in their car for the 6am train to Delhi, so at 5am the streets are full already...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on July 27, 2002 11:39 PM
TrackBack | Category: India, Trains, Worst Experiences July 23, 2002Jaipur City TourJaipur is the capital of Rajasthan and sits on a dry lake bed surrounded by barren hills at the top of which you can see fort-like edifices and the surrounding...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on July 23, 2002 11:24 PM
TrackBack | Category: Excursions, India, Worst Experiences July 22, 2002JaipurJuly 22-26 The next day we discover we are the only guests in the Hotel Meghniwas and we have breakfast in the quiet restaurant downstairs. The night before Bob had...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on July 22, 2002 11:17 PM
TrackBack | Category: Culture, Hostels & Guesthouses, India July 21, 2002PushkarThe driver has to ask 5 times for directions to Pushkar (no male pride here). Upon entering the village a guy sitting at a table lets down a red and...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on July 21, 2002 11:09 PM
TrackBack | Category: Excursions, India, Worst Experiences ChittorgarhOn the way out of town the next morning, I am not surprised to see a dead cow that had been hit by a car. “The government will come and...Read this update Mr. Singh's RickshawWe take the offer of Mr. Singh, the Sikh driver of an auto-rickshaw, a small, noisy, three-wheeled motorized contraption with no doors, to take us around the narrow streets that...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on July 21, 2002 11:02 PM
TrackBack | Category: Best Places, Excursions, India, Touching Experiences UdaipurJuly 18-21 To make it easy on ourselves we left at 4am for a one-hour flight north to Udaipur in the state of Rajasthan. When the taxi pulled out we...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on July 21, 2002 10:54 PM
TrackBack | Category: Hostels & Guesthouses, India July 18, 2002Ghandi-India To So AfricaIn my last story, I mistakenly said that Gandi was born in South Africa. He was not. He was born in 1869 in Porbander in the Indian state of Gujarat...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on July 18, 2002 09:33 AM
TrackBack | Category: Excursions, History, India, South Africa Four Taxis to DinnerIn Mumbai one night it was so ludicrous we just had to laugh...afterward. Taxi number one only got us to the end of our street before Bob, realizing the driver...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on July 18, 2002 09:28 AM
TrackBack | Category: Funniest Experiences, India, Restaurants Our Mumbai NeighborhoodWe watch India swirling with life on the street below our hotel window on the Colaba Causeway-the stretch of land that the English filled the Bay with that turned Bombay,...Read this update Migrants & BeggarsContinuing our taxi tour with Asane, he takes us to a part of Mumbai where we will see many migrants and beggars...and the red light district. As is happening all...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on July 18, 2002 09:22 AM
TrackBack | Category: Conversations, Culture, Excursions, India, Reading Asane's Taxi TourIn Mumbai, we took a three-hour government sponsored tour in an Indian-made Ambassador car with “Indian A/C” which is a fan that sits on the dashboard. While we were waiting...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on July 18, 2002 09:15 AM
TrackBack | Category: Conversations, Culture, Excursions, India, Politics Bhuleshwar BazaarsKalbadevi You would love this area if you don’t mind being scared out of your wits by long lines of honking taxis and motorcycles behind you and worker after worker...Read this update Bombay Renamed MumbaiJuly 13-18, 2002 India forces you to look beneath the surface of things...there is more here than your eyes see...a midnight ride into the city from the airport in the...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on July 18, 2002 09:04 AM
TrackBack | Category: Conversations, Food, Funniest Experiences, Hostels & Guesthouses, India July 12, 2002Sleepover In SowetoA Sleepover in Soweto-Africa’s largest township On our way to India we stopped in Johannesburg for two days to stay with Lolo Mabitsela in her Bed and Breakfast in...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on July 12, 2002 08:57 AM
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