Every day can be the trip of a lifetime.
Let's start with gadgets I wish I had with me. I wish I had my condenser microphone, my phantom power supply, and my trrs adapter with me. I have a side business where I live stream Yoga classes. I left that stuff at home because WireCast, the live stream software I use, has an app … Continue reading Gadgets, gear and mobile phone service you will not believe.
There's no way around it. Writing about any travels in India would not be complete with the mention of, yes, pooh. Dung, crap, scat, excrement, stool, manure. Call it what you may but it's going to occupy some of your precious time if you're travelling here. Why? Cow dung. First of all cows are everywhere. … Continue reading Pooh (Hint: not Winnie)
I had this great idea. As I travelled the world this year I would set aside one day a month to handwrite and mail postcards to some of my friends and acquaintances back in the U.S. We spend so much time on our smartphones, tablets and laptops that I thought it would be a nice … Continue reading The Lost Art of Postcarding
I spent the last 3 days wandering the neighborhood for a few hours a day. It's a fascinating place. I had a chance to see the small business up close. I passed Laxmi guest house where there was some construction going on. I looked up to the top balcony and saw a middle aged Indian … Continue reading Hyper-local, small business in Rishikesh.
The pollution, the hassles, the lies. Yes. I'm back here in India again. Why you ask? Because I love the people. I made a friend here in 2007 and we've kept in touch ever since then. We visited again in 2010. When I flew into Dehradun airport last night he picked me up in a … Continue reading India (yes again)
When we were planning our trip we wanted to begin with a month in Rishikesh. I’d been to Rishikesh 3 times previously for 4 or 5 days at a time. The idea was to get a place with a kitchen. This way we could do our own cooking and if we got food poisoning it … Continue reading A review of our AirBnB in Rishikesh
Our final day in the Agra area. Yesterday we saw the Taj Mahal in very foggy conditions. Today we hired a car to travel to Mathura and Vrindivan for the day. This is a holy area for Hindus where the legends of Krishna’s birthplace and childhood took place. Vridivan is also a place where many … Continue reading [February 2007] First Week in India!
Wow, it’s hard to believe this is only our 4th day in India. You cannot believe the scene in Delhi. Mostly a mix of very loud traffic horns and the constant yelling of the persistent touts (con men) all day long, with a break from about 1-4 AM. The poverty here is also unimagineable unless you have … Continue reading [Feb 2007] Calm in the Midst of Chaos
Inside David’s backpack- spf30, bandana, 4 pr socks, glove liners, 2 yoga mats, ls & ss dress shirt, pillow case, sheet, deet, pepto, imodium, lite wool sweater, cap, mosquito net-(treated), hiking shoes, 2 yoga pants, 2 lightweight pants, ultralite longjohns, 3 underwear, 3 tshirts, ls dress shirt, ls tshirt, toothpaste, TP, iodine pills, supertowel, pack … Continue reading [Feb 2007] First Few days in Delhi, India
Well this is a nice surprise. Back when Laurie and I first started traveling to Asia in 2007 I started a travel blog. It was hosted on a different platform but still archived. I stumbled across it recently and I've decided to move those early writings over to my current website. These were times where … Continue reading My first travel blog post in 2007
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