Travel Tangles

Down the hill from the ‘haveli’ (a large traditional house converted to a guesthouse) where we are staying here in Udaipur, the banks of Lake Pichola that runs through the old city have been built out into ‘ghats’ or steps and landings that lead down to the water’s edge. At…

Traveling in India for a while is challenging in so many ways for Westerners like David and me. For example, one of the chief concerns that one has traveling about the country as we are is what one can and cannot safely drink and eat. Everywhere in India one sees…

Keeping The Big Picture In Mind, Westerner Though I BeThere I was in the bathroom in the haveli (a large and ornately decorated traditional house) in which we were staying, trying to figure out how to transfer enough hot water with my water jug on to my hair to wash…