The Darjeeling Conundrum

Perhaps you’ve heard of Darjeeling. Maybe you know it for its tea. Maybe you know it for the movie. Or if you’re really up on your B+L trivia, you might know it as the final and current destination of our India tour. Well, let me tell you something interesting about this city: it’s FREEZING. Literally,  read more

A Near Engagement

The other day I had a couple hours to kill before we met for dinner, so I took my camera and went for a walk.  I was actually headed to one place in particular, but the ladies I wanted to photograph weren’t there, so instead of immediately turning around I decided to continue on down  read more

Kites & Bananas

I have a few quick stories for you.  It seems almost daily something peculiar catches my attention, few instances are blogged about, but when I find myself experiencing the same odd thing twice, I just have to write about.  This first anecdote is exactly one of those. On one of our first days in this  read more

Monkey Attack!

Before I can tell you about the monkey attack, let’s rewind quickly about twelve hours. Leaving the Taj Mahal, camera still in hand, I was ready snap photos of the monkeys and goats along the sidewalk.  I squatted down to take one monkey’s photo who was hanging out on a bench, and he immediately went  read more

A Day in India

Of course I am writing this post now that we’ve left our first location.  So all of the photos are from our first home in India. We had a drab little room, which we were very grateful for, included in it was even a bathroom with a western style toilet!  Yahoo!  Here is our bathroom.   read more

Taj Mahal and Agra

We took an overnight train from our first home in Indore to Agra, the location of the Taj Mahal.  We spent 1 and two half days there and saw as much as we could in that time.  We went to the Baby Taj. The Botanical Gardens. The Agra Fort. The Taj Mahal. The Agra Bazaar  read more