+ Eddie in India +

My 8 months travelling in ...

Last Update: Sun Dec 30 07:51:55 2007

+ Back in India + So yeah, it was indeed a challenging month or two after I got back to the States.  It's been two years since then so I [...] my time until my flight back to India on Nov 13.  The odyssey continues on my new blogsite:  http://eddieinindia.blogspot.com

+ Leaving + my last rickshaw ride As usual, I spent the 10-day vipassana retreat doing battle with my very wayward mind that would [...] hanging around, something to look at while I shopped for homespun fabrics to get made into clothes.  The next day I had jus

+ Lord Buddha to Shah Jehan + with Bhanteji, Shukla, her daughter-in-law, and grandson It turned out I needed three different buses to get [...] next morning I headed for the railway station in Gonda a couple hours away and (luckily) found a berth on the train I wanted, on over

+ Feeling Better + The girl in pink was mad I wasn't paying them anything for the photo op. So witnessing Diwali from a [...] on the stretcher with one body waiting to be lifted onto the pyre that a couple beggar kids had their eyes on. After a few unsu

+ Varanasi Gossip + Ganges from the hotel rooftop It's been a week since I checked into the Shiva Guest House here in [...] cafes and international restaurants with signs in Japanese and Hebrew. The offers to buy hash, make donations "for the poor,

+ Pilgrimagic + Mahaparanirvana Temple, Kushinagar After three or four days in Lumbini I resisted the temptation to join a [...] Biharis I've talked to have been quick to point out the problems their state is infamous for, leaving me with the impression th

+ Dude! I'm in Nepal! + Buddha's Birth Shrine ...But only just over the border in Lumbini, the birthplace of the Buddha. Got here two days [...] before I left Puttaparthy I forgot my backback in the rickshaw I came home in. This almost always means you'll never see it again

+ Rai Sam!...I mean: Sai Ram! + Auroville's Matrimandir After months of desperate wandering through India's vast spiritual landscape, [...] several young local men come as interns for two years, learning sustainable living and organic KOFPU's courtyard farmi

+ Snake Boats, Shri Meenaxi, and Auroville + Temple cum shopping center in Alleppey. Howdy!  It's been a while.  So... A couple bouncy busrides after [...] so many of us come to India for, knowingly or not.  So, maybe I should should just go climb a mountain.  More likely I should

+ Bye bye VKV! + Hey out there, Making parothas. Like chapatis but yummier. Finally pulling up stakes tomorrow and getting on the [...] speedy connection and helpfulness is the reason I've been able to step up my inclusion of photos lately. Okay, how did I end u

+ Bonus Photo Entry! + Cochin Goat Synagogue Here are some shots from my visit to Cochi, an ancient port city about a three hour journey [...] Race is being held this Saturday. It should be a spectacle to remember. (Aranmula has its own snake boat race in September but I

+ Random trivial things I can't help but notice are big in India + Just a few off the top of my head: "With iron shakti!" Bryan Adams -  I [...] Indians won't touch their lips to the bottle when they drink from one. It comes, I think, mostly from caste system rules agains

+ I'm Hrithik Roshan! + About a week to go here at Vijnana Kala Vedi, and life here is good but I have to admit that it really doesn't make [...] the grounds, a common occurence especially during breaks in courses. The father, a policeman, was going to sit his first 10-day course

+ The Slow Life in Kerala + Kathakali dancer photo op Hey friends. I just got the latest set of photos burned onto a cd so I've put a [...] up the warmth here and recharging my batteries for the next leg. (What that will be, I'm still not exactly sure!) Bit

+ Mmm...Coconut + Dhobi Ghats I made it to Kerala two days ago and have started to settle in nicely. Here's what's [...] Indian of marriageable age. A safe way to test the waters is internet chatting, and from what I've seen, it's a huge