".... if the eyes of the spectators have sometimes been deceived by fraud, the understanding of...
Kangchenjunga
We get in the car at 04:45 to drive to Tiger Hill to watch other people watch the sunrise while we...
Ew! Diaper
We get up in the morning and have the best home made jam in at least three continents. We say good...
A day in Gangtok
What to do today? I know, let’s drive through another traffic jam to go see a monastery. This one...
Missed the Movie
We park in old Jaipur and walk around for a bit of early morning shopping. Nancy interacts with a...
A Why Point
As in in why are we stopping here and not going straight to Udaipur? I take a pill and say...
A Change in Plans
We wake up to heavy fog and can barely see a soccer ball in front of our faces. So we wake up the travel agent, cancel the hike and hocus pocus no more Gangtok traffic, we are off to Darjeeling, home of tea and twits (they use to go there to escape the heat) But...
The Spitting Camel and Hold the Phone
Dispatches by Barlon from India. Actually it was an Indian kid on the gangway to get on to the plane in Toronto that turned around and spat at us. Welcome to India. No problems with the plane. Then … Fahk. We get through customs buttery smooth but no welcoming man....
Your Digital Burns Supper
Robert Burns wasn't just any poet, he was a successful poet. There are more public statues of Burns around the world than any other writer, and only Queen Victoria and Columbus surpass him for dedicated, non-religious statuary. A commemorative bottle of coke with his...