India

“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.

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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).

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