August 07, 2006
I Could Be In India
I was reading through some of my blog entries about India the other day and then I came upon this Slate.com article about India and laughed so hard I nearly...Read this update
August 04, 2002
Extremes In India
Back in Delhi the next day Bob and I are walking in the middle of the street as usual to a shopping area from the hotel when I noticed that...Read this update
July 31, 2002
Shimla
July 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
Rickshaw Driving Lesson
After 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
July 30, 2002
Death of the Vice President
Saturday 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 Culture
India’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 Rickshaw
Our 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
July 27, 2002
Traveling India Bob-Style
The 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
New Delhi
July 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
July 23, 2002
Jaipur City Tour
Jaipur 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
July 22, 2002
Jaipur
July 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
July 21, 2002
Pushkar
The 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
Chittorgarh
On 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 Rickshaw
We 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
Udaipur
July 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
July 18, 2002
Ghandi-India To So Africa
In 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
Four Taxis to Dinner
In 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
Our Mumbai Neighborhood
We 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 & Beggars
Continuing 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
Asane's Taxi Tour
In 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
Bhuleshwar Bazaars
Kalbadevi 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 Mumbai
July 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
July 12, 2002
Sleepover In Soweto
A 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
June 17, 2002
Bo Kaap or Cape Malay Quarter
The next day we take a minibus for 3 rand each (10 rand to a dollar) to look for an apartment. The buses are many and frequent with no schedule-you...Read this update