What a long, strange trip it’s been! I sit here in my final internet cafe on the final day of my trip through the Indian subcontinent, typing away at a stubborn keyboard that may just make my fingers sore depending how long I spend tip-tip-tipping away at it and trying to reflect back on the… Read More Lately It Occurs To Me…
Let me begin with the annotation that this blog will be text only. In the rush to depart from Kathmandu, there was a camera mix-up, singular, in that Tori took my camera in her bag. This kind of thing happens when the cameras are identical. It was only a single mix though, and I did… Read More The Dhaka Shuffle
Bump. Bump. Bump Bump. Bump. Go the wheels on the bus. For a day, we wound our way north on pocked roads that would make an acne-ridden teenager feel a jolt of self-esteem. I was comforted by the constant presence of a stranger’s hand on my headrest, allowing me to know that at least somebody… Read More Freak on a Leash
I think it happens to often that one arrives at one of the world famed tourist sites and is inevitably let down by something, either the scale, access, cost, dirtiness, maybe the mere presence of such hordes of people as to render it meaningless to see. For so long the Taj Mahal is held up… Read More To the North
The train was cold, though it wasn’t interminable. We had checked the weather forecasts, and my figuring was that simply putting on jeans and a sweatshirt should be enough to stay warm. However, sadly, I was proven quite wrong. Instead as the night wore on, the train grew colder and colder. Nothing of this seemed… Read More Ra Ra Rajasthan
At night we landed in Mumbai, walking through the refreshing and unexpectedly modern airport where we found the taxi desk after a tour company tried to sell us an aircon van trip to the hotel for 3x the normal price. Not a big surprise, but also nothing out of the ordinary in a lot of… Read More What’s in a Name? Bombay/Mumbai
You can thank the Chinese, and I will use them as a convenient excuse as to why I have not been present on the blog for months. The government here, exalted and wise, hath decreed that wordpress and all associated blogs are forthwith to be stricken from the cyber-domain of the People’s Republic. The positive… Read More Emerging From Winter
Zak Abroad 