January 2016

Cloud Dine.

Best time to ski. Everyone else at the movies.

Back to the daily grind.

Snow job.

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Footrest for sari wearer. Royal Enfield motorcycle.

Struggle. That's the first word that came to mind when I had heard Lilima's story.

Opt for first flush pick...

Perhaps Jerry Brown should take a look at Darjeeling's resourcefulness in solving its water problems?

Rana says: There is an aspirational quality about India today.

Yet... there is a method to the madness for driving in India.

By a landslide, she was elected a member of Indian Parliament after independence.

Zoroastrianism is arguably the world's oldest monotheistic religion.

Inadvertently, unwittingly, I had clasped my two hands behind my back and imprinted the fresh henna design onto the back of my fleece.

Birds

Despite seeming cooperative communal relations in India at the village and community level, there are fault lines of communal antagonism at the national level.

Shock channels a bygone, glorious era. Lotus Tours.

The privy purse was halted by Indira Gandhi, via constitutional amendment, in 1971.

The fort remained impregnable to direct assault and fell only once, due to a shortage of drinking water...

A different route.... a different leopard, I said.

I include the image of the truncated croc to show how large this animal was.

No hunched over women of a certain age with osteoporosis here?

Hear no evil. See no evil. Do no evil.

I whispered to my Maruti mates... 1%, Heat, the Admiral, and JD (guide) that I had a sighting. Almost immediately, Nigel arose, and walked about 20 feet into a cave.

But it's only as a human that you can gain sufficient self-knowledge to escape the cycle of reincarnation and achieve moksha (liberation).

Wow! Fulfilled! A leopard sighting our first outing.

Haunting and beautiful breakfast atmospherics with the background flute music.

Pond near memorial to Maharaja Jaswant Singh. Jodhpur, India.

Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. Rabbit warren streets... 23 near misses between the fort and lunch spot, Raas Haveli hotel and restaurant.

Trumpet fanfare... rose petals... TIMDT getting the welcome she deserves!

Not "fusion." Rather, "Indian food with a twist." Best example might be our starting amuse bouche... a small nan with melted blue cheese (blue cheese being the twist on the Indian theme."

Shave and a haircut six bits.

No water flow regulations in addition to no OSHA like regulations. Just business license regulations!

Arriving in Delhi, you might be forgiven if you thought you had woken up into a scene of post apolcalytic Los Angeles, in the film, "Blade Runner."

Will the experience of visiting the Taj Mahal shape their future lives in any way?

Largest Indian antelope species. 2nd largest to Eland in Africa.

After shooting for 30 seconds or so, the python slithered into its hole... making for some excellent snake movement in the video.

I mused to myself that it would be another 12 hours before people in Park City would see in the new year.