Man, what a long journey. It took 31 hours of travel time (from takeoff in Delhi to landing in Victoria), and about 24 hours flying time to get back, not counting hotel to airport (+ waiting) and driving home. Felt good to see Anne & Luc waiting for me (there was no room for Jake in the car). It was pretty grueling, and being a 12.5 hours time difference I'm sure it will take me a few days (at least) to get my head back in to Pacific time). I was worried leaving Delhi, as there was an airport workers strike happening, but fortunately at that time it was only the maintanence staff - toilets not cleaned and piles and piles of rubbish around (not to be cruel, but is that so different?).
I was happy I went, unhappy to not be with the family; unhappy about the physical problems, but quite happy to meet such good and generous people who helped me; happy to have experienced such an absolutely beautiful place with absolutely perfect weather, but still felt like I was ready to just start doing my India thing (only did 27 rolls of film, 5 rolls of video, and about 600 meg of digital pics - much too modest). Saw lots I was happy to see; knew about tons of more stuff I could have experienced (and photo'd) if I wasn't trying to be so careful with my eye (and cough before).
Next time.
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I'm sure I must have read this series back when you posted it, but nice to see it now, regardless. That's when you discovered Godwin's place! History in the making, and all that.
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