Sitting in an oven-like internet cafe. Halina is at the computer terminal on my right. She has droplets drip drip dripping down the side of her face. Her hair looks like it has just been washed, not from the rain but from the heat. The rain has stopped for the [...]
Rishikesh! After an overnight sleeper train ride, we arrived in Rishikesh. Heavy monsoon rains greeted us. We are lucky because it can get quite hot here, too. But instead, the rain is cooling and everyone is happy. Street vendors materialized out of seemingly nowhere selling rain ponchos. We got to [...]
Happy 4th of July! So frustrating to have so little time on the computer at the internet cafe. Hopefully I will have a more open schedule in Rishikesh. Fifteen minutes here now. How I hate to leave the cool of the mountains. A morning trip to the Tibetan Children's Village [...]
Just got out of a taxi ride with a crazy Rasta-Man-Tibetan taxi driver! He took four of us from our dinner destination back to our hotel. Over Credence Clearwater's "Have you ever seen the rain?", he asks Don, riding in the front seat, "What is your name?" "Don" "Don?! In [...]
Woke up at 5 am today! I was up before everyone else -except for Don who gets up at 4 every morning to meditate and drink his 8 cups of coffee (he has cut back since he has been here)! I was awakened by the birds of the Himalayas! YES! [...]