hot asphalt on bare feet
OK, I have like no pictures of India because all the cool places - such as the Hindu temples and ashrams - do not allow photos. Oh well.
It was a grueling 5-6 hour city bus tour this morning - on a very old bus that seemed to run due to the grace of the numerous Hindu deities honored by stickers on the front window.
A cool thing about staying at a cheap hotel is that I get hooked up with cheap tours with all Indians. There have been no foreigners on either tour. People are friendly but not pushy, usually. They all got fruit, and I was clearly drooling as I watched them eat their mango, papaya, pineapple, citrus, and other things I couldn't even identify. I just kept thinking of all the travel warnings I ever got about not eating street fruit without peeling it myself, and I just couldn't do it. But this guy insisted I try this citrus thing - and fortunately I didn't like it much. Especially not with all the chili powder they pour on all the fruit. And now I have sticky handprints on my pants from a 2-year-old who ate his mango and then used my body as balance during the busride.
All the temples and ashrams also require bare feet, hence today's title. We also went to this totally cool snake park. I mean, not really cool for the snakes, as the cages were pretty small and icky, but it was so awesome to see all these snakes close-up. And reptiles, too - they had many different kinds of crocodiles. India has amazing biodiversity - almost everything there was native to India. And I got a postcard of the four common venomous snakes for Jeffrie - because she hates them so much and wants to get over her fear.
The weather is actually quite nice here - I meant, it's hot and humid as hell, but it's not raining.
People keep telling me it's raining in California, very hard. What's going on? I don't see anything when I search for it.
Wow, I keep getting email invitations to apply to law schools - and these are pretty good ones, too. They are even waiving the application fee. I don't want to regret that I didn't go to law school, but I don't want to spend three years getting heavily in debt and then having to work my ass off and not have a life forever.
OK, I think I'll walk over to the museum now and then crash for the rest of the evening (and probably be back here again) and prepare for a very early morning - off to Bangkok!
It was a grueling 5-6 hour city bus tour this morning - on a very old bus that seemed to run due to the grace of the numerous Hindu deities honored by stickers on the front window.
A cool thing about staying at a cheap hotel is that I get hooked up with cheap tours with all Indians. There have been no foreigners on either tour. People are friendly but not pushy, usually. They all got fruit, and I was clearly drooling as I watched them eat their mango, papaya, pineapple, citrus, and other things I couldn't even identify. I just kept thinking of all the travel warnings I ever got about not eating street fruit without peeling it myself, and I just couldn't do it. But this guy insisted I try this citrus thing - and fortunately I didn't like it much. Especially not with all the chili powder they pour on all the fruit. And now I have sticky handprints on my pants from a 2-year-old who ate his mango and then used my body as balance during the busride.
All the temples and ashrams also require bare feet, hence today's title. We also went to this totally cool snake park. I mean, not really cool for the snakes, as the cages were pretty small and icky, but it was so awesome to see all these snakes close-up. And reptiles, too - they had many different kinds of crocodiles. India has amazing biodiversity - almost everything there was native to India. And I got a postcard of the four common venomous snakes for Jeffrie - because she hates them so much and wants to get over her fear.
The weather is actually quite nice here - I meant, it's hot and humid as hell, but it's not raining.
People keep telling me it's raining in California, very hard. What's going on? I don't see anything when I search for it.
Wow, I keep getting email invitations to apply to law schools - and these are pretty good ones, too. They are even waiving the application fee. I don't want to regret that I didn't go to law school, but I don't want to spend three years getting heavily in debt and then having to work my ass off and not have a life forever.
OK, I think I'll walk over to the museum now and then crash for the rest of the evening (and probably be back here again) and prepare for a very early morning - off to Bangkok!
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