India
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Friday, 19 Jan 2007 | Views [1564]
ADP: Until now, we’d spent weeks struggling to keep pace with frenetic, chaotic, religion-centric, sanitarily challenged, confusing, stimulating and draining India. But here in Goa, we finally had a chance to dig our heels in the copper-colored sand, ... Read more >
Tags: People
Sunday, 14 Jan 2007 | Views [1577]
ADP: After spending nearly a week purging our bodies, minds and auras of all sorts of impurities at the Sivinanda Ashram in Southern India (who knew onions, sugar, alcohol, garlic and salt were so evil, anyway?) Jen and I decided that it was high time ... Read more >
Tags: People
Sunday, 7 Jan 2007 | Views [1166] | Comments [1]
ADP: While it’s theoretically possible to snag a cheap fare from Delhi to Chennai on one of India’s new low cost carriers, getting from A to B in the subcontinent (especially on a backpacker budget) usually means traveling by train. And when cities and ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
Saturday, 30 Dec 2006 | Views [1279]
“You can check out any time you’d like, but you can never leave!” echoed through my head as the gangly, Indian security guard stood between me, Amanda and the exit gate. Now, of course, that’s not really what he said to us, but I could feel an eerie, ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Friday, 15 Dec 2006 | Views [820]
HCC: Sure, travel involves risk: Robbery, bombings, bird flu. But we’ve already addressed the fact that taking a trip is no more dangerous than driving your car (you’re much more likely to die in an accident only a few miles from your home). Yet with ... Read more >
Tags: Philosophy of travel
Monday, 23 Oct 2006 | Views [886]
HCC: The Lost Girls have been in northern India for just four days, and have already witnessed our first traffic accident. Frankly, we’re surprised we didn’t see a collision sooner, given the fact that mopeds, trucks, cabs, cows and elephants all share ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Monday, 23 Oct 2006 | Views [766] | Comments [1]
HCC: When our tour guide, Sunil, told us riding an elephant was believed to be able to change my luck, I was all game. After all, For Me magazine, where my monthly column chronicling my on-the-road adventures was scheduled to appear, had closed after ... Read more >
Tags: Philosophy of travel
Monday, 23 Oct 2006 | Views [953]
ADP: After a whirlwind tour of Rio de Janeiro and Salvador, Brazil, the girls and I took a short hiatus in New York City to stock up on supplies, hang with friends and otherwise fortify ourselves for the next leg of the journey.
We arrived in New ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
