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Jaipur – Oh India! You’re Missing a Palace!

January 21, 2016 by admin Leave a Comment

“The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen

The first leg of our India tour was a trip around the Golden Triangle (Delhi, Jaipur and Agra) by car. We spent two nights in Jaipur and it was the only place we visited in India where we wished that we had an extra day or two. The city was very manageable and the shopping looked terrific, but we were on the “we have 14 days to see six cities, so hurry up, snap that picture and let’s move it” tour of India. Le sigh.

Delhi – Oh India! How do you do?

January 15, 2016 by admin Leave a Comment

What We Are Listening To

For your listening enjoyment. On our first night in Delhi, we wandered to a small restaurant across from our hostel that had a total of four tables in it and ordered dinner (this was to be one of our best meals in India). As the server/cook went back into the kitchen to make our meals, he put some music on – it turns out it was a station of American 90’s music and when this song came on, we all looked at each other and sort of laughed/cried. There couldn’t be a more appropriate song for how we were feeling.

India, How Do You Do?

We got off to a rough start in India. After an overnight flight from Istanbul with a short layover in Abu Dhabi, it took us three hours to get through immigration – mostly due to the fact that there were only two officers ever working at one time and because it took us so long, the driver that our hostel sent, left us. We were given EXPLICIT orders to not wander out of the airport alone (this, in and of itself, was unsettling) and so we had to wait for over an hour for him to come back to pick us up again (and pay for two trips).

Turkey – Final Thoughts

January 10, 2016 by admin Leave a Comment

What We Are Listening To

For your listening enjoyment. I fell in love with this song when it came out on the radio at home, but hadn’t heard it in years. One evening, we were sitting in this tiny little indoor room of a restaurant in Goreme, having dinner in front of a wood burning stove and this song came on over the radio. And I fell in love with it all over again. And then I heard it three more times before we left Turkey. It reminds me so much of our time in Cappadocia. “Come along now, come along with me.”

My Final Thoughts

Turkey was a crazy time for the ‘ol Schwarz clan.

We were just learning how to get our travel legs under us. We were scared. We were overwhelmed. We were ecstatic. We were trepidatious and we were exuberant. We got scammed and we received the kindest hospitality we have known. We spent too much. We missed a lot. We saw and experienced some pretty amazing shit.

Cappadocia – Churches and Camels and Fairy Chimneys, oh my!

January 7, 2016 by admin Leave a Comment

We left the Mediterranean coast on an overnight bus, leaving my beloved sea and were dropped off at 5 a.m. in the dark and the freezing cold. When the sun rose, we were greeted with this sight.

The Lycian Way – Romping Through Ancient History

January 5, 2016 by admin Leave a Comment

I was hoping that we would get to experience more of the Lycian Way, but after our mountain fiasco, we needed to pull way back and take it easy. We still got to explore some amazing places along this ancient trail and they captured me in a way nothing else on this trip has.