After 4 plane flights, 2 trains, multiple cars, rickshaw, boats, walking, after over 15,000 miles of traveling, we are finally home and it feels great. We arrived in Newark early this morning and after a stop at Karen's parents for breakfast, drove home. It was great to see Darwin, Lucy, Spike and Phoenix - they were happy to see us as well. It feels good to be in our house, to take a shower in our own bathroom, to be able to drink the water from the sink!
I had grand intentions of getting a lot of work done on the photos on the 15 hour plane flight home, but that didn't really happen. I will work on them and post them soon I hope.
A couple of funny things that I was going over in my head on the way home that we saw along the way that I thought I'd add here now...
- Cows, goats, ox, chickens, dogs, and most people, do not respond to car horns. That doesn't stop Indians from using them constantly.
- One of our drivers along the way had Celion Dion for his ringtone on his cell phone.
- The sign in Varanasi for "Asian Exterminators" - not sure which way that one goes...are they exterminators from Asia? Exterminating asian insects? Exterminating Asians? Wierd.
- The sign in Bandhavgarh for Bodjet Inn - think it was supposed to be "budget"
- The sense of bewilderment by our "butler" in the lodge at Bandhavgarh that in the U.S. we don't have our own cows or water buffalo for milk. Where else would we get milk from?
- Desserts in India are just plain strange - vermicilli noodles in pudding is not dessert.
- My never ending amazement at watching other travelers in airports act like they've never traveled before - like the woman who tried to walk through security carrying her purse or the other woman who asked the stewardess on the plane if there were assigned seats. (These were not Indians by the way.)
Karen and I have spent the last 16 days together for almost every minute - with the only exception really when using the bathroom or the few times we had to split up for separate male/female security check lines. It has been an adventure that I wouldn't have wanted anyone else with me on.
Will post when the pictures are ready...Karen will sum up the last days of the trip I'm sure.
Thanks for reading along with us.
3 comments:
Welcome home. The pictures are amazing. I have only one question, which do you prefer, vermicelli noodles in pudding or pastry cones with mayonnaise and swiss cheese?
I think it's a pretty close tie! I forgot about the mayonnaise pastry...
i hadn't seen this last email. it was really nice :-) (and funny) yeah, noodles in pudding is NOT dessert!!!
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