Chapati has may uses. It is food, of course, an Indian bread. But it also serves as a utensil, a fork or spoon, to scoop up whatever the vegetable of the day may be. Or as a spatula, placing one on top of another on...
In a sea of black hair and headscarves I was the only blonde. The only other color of hair that came close were the gray strands of some elder men. And while pierced left noses were a dime a dozen my right nostril was the...
This wasn't my plan. I'm going to tell you this upfront.
It's not that I don't want to volunteer. It's not that I don't think that this is a worthy cause or an amazing organization. Because I do. And it is.
It's that I don't think I...
Jaipur may not have been my idea of a pink city, but the blue city of Jodhpur, India, where many of the buildings and houses are painted blue, was pretty blue, if only from a distance.
The Blue City of Jodhpur, India
The train ride to Jodhpur...
The old city of Jaipur is dubbed the pink city. But, as Jaime and I walked around on our first day there we noticed something a little off. The city wasn't pink. It was orange. Salmon at best. But certainly not pink....
"I feel like we should be having sex or something."
Jaime, to me, while laying in bed.
"From now on, I'm your favorite wife."
Me, to Jaime, at the Taj Mahal....
Is it bad to say that, really, the only thing I knew was in India is the Taj Mahal? And even then I'm not sure I'd ever have been entirely confident to say it was in India? But, for the record, it is. Agra, India,...
India is already proving to be one of those places I have a love/hate relationship with. The highs are pretty high, already some of the most amazing moments I've had on this trip, but the lows are intense and breaking. And my mood and feelings...
Of everywhere I've traveled so far, India has been the place whose first impression lived up to the image I had in my imagination. Unpaved streets lined with garbage and neon lights. Cows and elephants intermixing with cars and motorbikes and rickshaws on the road....