- Eddie in India -

My 8 months travelling in ...

Last Update: Sun Dec 30 07:51:55 2007

- Back in India - So yeah, it was indeed a challenging month or two after I got back to the States.  It's been two years since [...] my flight back to India on Nov 13.  The odyssey continues on my new blogsite:  http://eddieinindia.blogspot.com

- Leaving - my last rickshaw ride As usual, I spent the 10-day vipassana retreat doing battle with my very wayward [...] around, something to look at while I shopped for homespun fabrics to get made into clothes.  The next day I had jus

- Lord Buddha to Shah Jehan - with Bhanteji, Shukla, her daughter-in-law, and grandson It turned out I needed three different [...] headed for the railway station in Gonda a couple hours away and (luckily) found a berth on the train I wanted, on over

- Feeling Better - The girl in pink was mad I wasn't paying them anything for the photo op. So witnessing [...] with one body waiting to be lifted onto the pyre that a couple beggar kids had their eyes on. After a few unsu

- Varanasi Gossip - Ganges from the hotel rooftop It's been a week since I checked into the Shiva Guest House [...] restaurants with signs in Japanese and Hebrew. The offers to buy hash, make donations "for the poor,

- Pilgrimagic - Mahaparanirvana Temple, Kushinagar After three or four days in Lumbini I resisted the [...] talked to have been quick to point out the problems their state is infamous for, leaving me with the impression th

- Dude! I'm in Nepal! - Buddha's Birth Shrine ...But only just over the border in Lumbini, the birthplace of the Buddha. Got [...] I forgot my backback in the rickshaw I came home in. This almost always means you'll never see it again

- Rai Sam!...I mean: Sai Ram! - Auroville's Matrimandir After months of desperate wandering through India's vast [...] local men come as interns for two years, learning sustainable living and organic KOFPU's courtyard farmi

- Snake Boats, Shri Meenaxi, and Auroville - Temple cum shopping center in Alleppey. Howdy!  It's been a while.  So... A couple bouncy [...] come to India for, knowingly or not.  So, maybe I should should just go climb a mountain.  More likely I should

- Bye bye VKV! - Hey out there, Making parothas. Like chapatis but yummier. Finally pulling up stakes tomorrow and [...] and helpfulness is the reason I've been able to step up my inclusion of photos lately. Okay, how did I end u

- Bonus Photo Entry! - Cochin Goat Synagogue Here are some shots from my visit to Cochi, an ancient port city about a [...] held this Saturday. It should be a spectacle to remember. (Aranmula has its own snake boat race in September but I

- Random trivial things I can't help but notice are big in India - Just a few off the top of my head: "With iron shakti!" Bryan [...] touch their lips to the bottle when they drink from one. It comes, I think, mostly from caste system rules agains

- I'm Hrithik Roshan! - About a week to go here at Vijnana Kala Vedi, and life here is good but I have to admit that it really [...] common occurence especially during breaks in courses. The father, a policeman, was going to sit his first 10-day course

- The Slow Life in Kerala - Kathakali dancer photo op Hey friends. I just got the latest set of photos burned onto a cd so [...] here and recharging my batteries for the next leg. (What that will be, I'm still not exactly sure!) Bit

- Mmm...Coconut - Dhobi Ghats I made it to Kerala two days ago and have started to settle in nicely. [...] age. A safe way to test the waters is internet chatting, and from what I've seen, it's a huge

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