Literally next door to the hotel was a silk weaving business. Most of the weaving is done as a cottage industry with looms in weavers’ homes. There were four of five looms and two weavers doing their work while the owner gave a talk of how the looms worked. The pattern is both known in the head of the weaver
Our 4:15 wake up call gave us just enough time to get ready and gather for our 5 am bus ride to the Ganges. At 5 am the city is surprisingly active. Although the shops are closed, some of the street vendors are already set up, selling their wares. The bus took us as far as he could and then
We met our tour manager, Mansi, in the lobby of the hotel. She is in her late 20’s and unmarried, which is unusual for an Indian woman of her age. She is engaged to be married to a man she has met for 22 minutes. But we learned this much later in the day. I digress. More later as she
After lots of preparation I got my suitcase packed with about half clothes and half “stuff” (lots of health stuff -anti malaria, anti diarrhea, antibiotics, soap, shampoo and a decent size jar of peanut butter to name a few) and it was under the 50 pound weight limit United has and under the 44 pound weight limit the Indian airlines
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” ~ TS Elliot Tuesday I jet off to Asia, spending six weeks in India. The first couple of weeks traveling in the northern part and then studying yoga for the month of October in Pune. As I have shared this upcoming journey, many
Please join me at Sweetwater's at 123 West Washington on Friday, August 25 from 7-8:30. I will have a few pieces hanging along side the other five members of my photo group. Would love to have you there.
Three years since my last blog post!? Facebook, email and other ways of communicating have taken the place of my blog. I am preparing (mostly mentally at this point) to go to India in the fall and am considering resurrecting the blog. This is a test to see if I can manage to post from my iPad.
This is the third month I’ve played the Minimalist Game. http://www.theminimalists.com/game/ The first month I was fairly strict counting things and keeping the number of things tied to the day of the month. In March, I made the day of the month the minimum number of things, not stopping if I was on a roll. I’m carrying on in the
In the cover of darkness, a taxi min-van transported us to the airport. The driver asked us what we’d done and seen on the island and I listed off all of our activities. I asked him if he’d been to those places (Maria, the property manager at the apartment alluded to the fact that being a local, she didn’t get
Getting the award for the worst shower on the planet, The Blue Horizon is a hotel across the street from the gorgeous public access beach near Rockley. Sunday afternoon the beach was busier than other beaches we’d been on (although, all the beaches we’d been on all week were nearly completely vacant of human beings) with people in beach chairs