Overnight Train to Enlightenment
With so many places highlighted by television and film, you begin to develop mental models of them, and form an ideal experience in your head that represents your fantasies of that place. For India this was certainly the case, and an overnight train was one of those things we felt we had to do.
Arriving at [...]
Love in the Air, God on the Road Side
We awoke to meet our driver, a man who spoke absolutely no English and had the cold demeanor of an army general, and left towards Agra to see the Taj Mahal. Along the way, we stopped sporadically to photograph a few things, including a lavishly tattooed camel, a trick monkey dyed red, and badly translated [...]
An Older Delhi is a Better Delhi
After our brief but memorable stint in Kashmir, we returned to Delhi to meet up with our friend Chad, arriving from Dallas that night, to continue our journey on from there. We had a hefty dose of Delhi traffic on our way to the hotel, which still shied in comparison to the seething mass of [...]
All Things Kashmir
We arrived in Delhi, greeted by thick heat and humid air, and the peaceful vibe that only a nation full of Hindus could create. We met our fixer JP, who had organized most of this trip for us, and he took us to our hotel. After a hot shower and full meal of local cuisine, [...]