Here’s a distillation of the best and worst of our trip around the world. We lots of fun putting this together during the final weeks of our trip. Most useful item we brought with us: Mitch’s swiss army knife. We used it for everything from extracting a sea urchin spine from Mitch’s foot at the […]
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Exercise on the Road
Here is a blog that I wrote earlier in the trip and forgot to post. Perhaps I was was hoping my exercise routine would be more regular at some point. It was always sporadic at best. At any rate, here are some thoughts about exercise on the road. Those of you who know Mitch will […]
Thank You EPA
Part of the value of travel is to remind oneself of the things we have that we sometimes take for granted. Off and on for the last five months one of the things I have been really appreciative from home is the nice air quality. Granted, there are times during the winter when Boise has […]
Leaving India
March 12 – 25 We ended up leaving India earlier than planned due to the 100 degree weather, the whole family getting sick and the ever present air pollution. Travel in India is truly an adventure for the independent traveler. Each day brings moments of exasperation followed by moments of beauty and kindness. Perhaps the […]
Bundi, India
During the first week or so of our trip, Mom told me that eventually I’d get sick of going to restaurants. I told her I would never feel that way. A few weeks later, I was wishing we could eat in every night. (Mom doesn’t, but that’s because she has to cook.) Now we’ve been […]
Seeing the Taj Mahal
Before we left on our trip there were five buildings or structures that everyone wanted to see: the Coliseum, the Eiffel Tower, the pyramids, the Taj Mahal, and the Great Wall. On the 15th we saw the Taj. For myself, I have previously seen the first four places on this list, and would have ranked […]
Bigger is Not Better
Saturday night, March 12th, we arrived in Delhi, India. In several ways, it was going back in time for us. First off, because we had to set our watches back 1.5 hours. (Why the half hour?). Also, though, because Delhi reminded us all of Cairo; big, crowded, dirty, noisy, and chaotic. While walking the streets […]
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