Ni Dieu Ni Maitre
The Going Itself is the Way
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There are several things to do here, and through a week of basically resting and catching up on this blog, I managed most of them. One was, of course walking and hiking, which I pursued daily. Then the trip downhill to the Tibetan monastery. Here the well fed and healthy shaven-headed monks offered tea, but…
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Just crossing from Assam into this state was a revelation, as the small bus climbed and descended steep hill, one after another, on a well paved divided 4 lane highway. I had booked a room at Shanti Sojourn, to which some cab drivers flatly refused to tale me… no tuk-tuks here at all, since every…
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It took 2 busses to go the 30km to the big city, and once again, thanks to the kindness of strangers, I made it easily. A middle aged woman on bus one asked me where I was going and led me to what was also her bus a block and a half away. Upon arrival,…
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This hotel is still under construction, with only the third floor operational. The restaurant, on the other hand, has been in business for a while and is quite popular. I had 2 prepaid nights and the first thing on the list was to get rupees. A trip to the local State Bank of India showewd…
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A BAD TRIP (kinda like a bad dream) Arrived at Guhawati Airport after dark, a very small airport with just 2 halls, Arrivals and Departures. Looking around for an ATM turned out to be useless and asking around revealed that there wasn’t one. I had no rupees. I looked into Departures, and there was a…
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Started out with a 6 hour bus ride (one pit stop after 5 hours) meandering through rice paddies, small villages and cities and over the central hills, past elephant crossings on entirely 2 lane roads with the incessant crazy passing by the bus driver… traffic deaths are quite common, but not as frequent as in…
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As my visa ran out, I used my friend Peter’s knowledgeable son to guide me through the Indian e-Visa process as it had taken me 3 days just to get to page 3 of ‘Mother’s place of Birth’ and so on. Neither of us could figure out how to get a 90 day visa, which…
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Northern Thailand is in an air quality tailspin. When I was briefly there in Chaing Mai at the end of last year, the weather was delightful and the air fresh. Currently it is, frankly, poisonous, running an AQI of 205 today. I am looking at far northern India as an option, but also at very…
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When I arrived in February, it was the end of the monsoon season here, with occasional rain squalls and only a hardy few tourists on Uppeveli Beach. Thanks to America’s fearless (and clueless) leader bowing down to Benny Netanyahu’s mad plan to avoid going to prison in Israel by fomenting endless warfare in the Mideast,…
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Oh, those playful street dogs on Sarvodaya road that sleep in the shade all day and get frisky once the sun goes down. What fun we have, frolicking in the road as I wander along, past the dozen or more places to eat… But wait! There’s blood on my wrist and a scrape from a…
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