Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Archive for September, 2009

India is crazy

It’s time to play catch-up.  We have only posted twice about India since we’ve been here, and we will be departing a little more than a week from now to come home.  We are obviously excited to come home and see everyone, and we’re ready for the comforts that come with being at home.  In [...]

Read Full Post »

Monkeys, Cows and Yoga

Rishikesh, in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India, provided the best of both worlds for Adam and I.  Since the very first time we considered coming to India, I knew that I wanted to do some yoga.  Ideally, I wanted to go to an ashram.  While I’d never been to an ashram, I envisioned it [...]

Read Full Post »

(Author’s note:  Remember that the majority of this was written immediately after hiking, so my emotions were fairly strong at the time.)
Holy s**t!!  The Himalayas are no joke.  We’ve done some pretty intense hiking and gone on some tough treks on this trip, but they honestly pale in comparison to today’s hike.  This was honestly [...]

Read Full Post »

We have now been in India for about a week and a half.  It’s an interesting place to say the least.  At times maddening and overwhelming, at times beautiful and exciting, which are exactly the emotions emitted during my recent trek in the Himalayas.
We arrived in Delhi, the insanely busy and chaotic capital of India [...]

Read Full Post »