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Home for a few months now. Today seems like a good day to reflect. First off, congratulations to Barack Obama and to the US. No matter yo...

June 16 - The Satyagrah Express train from Gorakpur to Delhi * Note to self : Be sceptical of Indian trains named for swiftness. This is no ...

Lumbini, Nepal Some folks have said I may have painted an overly bleak picture of my experience with the Vipassana meditation course. Perhap...

Following on the subject below of things swinging, we just finished traveling in the state of Rajasthan where you can't swing a cat with...

Jaipur, Rajasthan At 7:00 this morning we bid a poignant goodbye to the place where we'd just spent ten challenging days. After a very...

Currently writing from Jaisalmer , a city in western Rajasthan . This is a desert state and Jaisalmer , founded in the late 12 th century p...

Fourteen years ago I stumbled into Goa after two months of racing around big tracts of north India with my friend Sherry. She returned to t...

A few days ago Tami and I bused it for ten hours from Patan in Gujarat to Jodhpur in Rajasthan. Sometimes, especially when you venture off...

Been off-line for awhile. This being our home stretch (in a quite literal sense) we've been moving and seeing things at a brisk pace. We...