India

Now perched precariously atop our camels (who in real life are far larger, and indeed taller, than they seem in pictures), our band rode off into the sunset led by our walking camel drivers.
Actually, we only walked for perhaps 3 minutes before stopping, at which point the drivers clucked at our camels until they braaaaah’ed […]

Unfortunately, I don’t have time to write the second part of the Camel Farts post just yet.  I’ll get to it, and I promise that the rest of the posts will start to sound less horrorshow and much more positive.  We had a bad run of luck right at the beginning, which unfortunately colored much […]

We arrived in Jaisalamer early in the morning, while it was still dark.  We initially decided to hang out in the train station until it got light, then venture out into the streets to find lodging.  However, the rickshaw drivers can teach mosquitos something about driving a person mad, and their incessant ‘rickshaw? rickshaw?’ despite our […]

Udaipur turned out to be one of the highlights thus far of our trip, although we didn’t know it at the time.  The town is fairly small by Indian standards (a ’small’ town has something like  80k people or more), and set picturesquely alongside a nice lake.  Set in the center of the lake are two palaces, one […]

So yes, I haven’t been all that diligent about posting here on this trip. In large part, the blame for that lies with the relatively poor internet cafe offerings here in India, coupled with the complete exhaustion one feels after a full day dealing with the noise and chaos here. More on that later.
For now, […]

Thursday arrived and brought with it the impending arrival of Geraldine, albeit at the end of what would become a somewhat agonizingly long day.  I spent most of it wandering around, eating, waiting.  I switched hotels from the fleabag I was staying in (surrounded by slums), to a nice hotel so that after a 30+ […]

I left Buenos Aires at 1:00 in the afternoon, after a long and semi-panicked journey through Argentine bureaucracy.  I’d overstayed my visa, which wouldn’t have been a problem except that to get the small fine taken care of, I had to retrace my steps back out past the long line for customs and the longer […]