Special Guest Blogger - Susan
Ben and I were lucky to be a part of Bill and Jeeheon's early mid-life crisis adventure in India. In our group of four I was self-elected as the Environmental Director. After seeing (or smelling) the septic system I couldn't convince the group to forego bottled water and use faucet water with purifying tablets. So we were environmentally responsible in other ways such as seldom showering and wearing the same clothes for 3-4 days straight (underwear and socks not excluding). Ben was group selected as the Communications Director, Jeeheon was CFO and overall big boss and Bill was the Party Patrol. So our motley crew functioned very well together for two weeks. And we are all still friends!
Favorite parts of the trip: camel trekking and spending New Year's Eve in the desert (more to come from Jeeheon on our trip to Jaisalmer), boat ride on Pichola Lake in Udaipur, getting a beautiful lehenga tailor made for only $30, eating dosas, drinking orange Fanta and of course getting regular again after being sick!
Least favorite parts of the trip: sitting in vomit-encrusted seat on the 7 hour bus ride from Udaipur to Jodhpur, constant haggling over prices and rupees and getting the stomach ache from hell which knocked me on my bum for a day and a half.
We head home tonight back to the grind of NYC and say goodbye to Bill and Jeeheon. Good luck with your future travels, we love you guys!
The Fab Four in Udaipur:
This father-son team convinced us to buy a million pashmina shawls:
Bus ride from Udaipur to Jodhpur:
Fruit stand in Delhi:
Men in Delhi:
Vegetable stand in Jaisalmer:
Boys on the road to Jaisalmer who giggled when they thought Ben's name was pen (all the children beg for pens from tourists):
Village master and friend in Jaisalmer:
Great Thar Desert:
Street scene in Jodhpur:
5 comments:
Bill on party control? No way!
The pictures are back to allowing full size links again...(thanks Susan). I'm torn between the camel and a couple dudes at the Great Thar Desert, or the village master (and friend) as my background. Either way my co-workers must be wondering.
Safe travels everyone, & Happy New Year - Donnie
Bill, I have to start looking for a job here in Austin, so I want to put you on my list of references OK? Jeeheon, make Bill send a short email to holly.coe@prescottlegal.com confirming that I assisted Bill from his arrival in the NB office to his departure in March and how helpful I was, blablabla. OK?
Hey, splendid photos and great narrative. You'll have to write a book when you get back [even if it's just a Shutterfly book]. God bless and take care of yourselves. 2008 is going to be a great year!
Lorraine in Austin
Back in Brooklyn. No cow dung in sight, its too cold for cows here.
Ben
Donnie - I am pretty sure Susan got the full size links back by accident. Happy New Year to the Pool family!
Lorraine - I passed the message along to Bill. Good luck job hunting!
Ben - so, do you miss the chaos yet?
It is not meaningful.
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