There are very few times in my life that I was so disgusted by a food that I spit it out. That was however before I tried paan while in India last month. I’m not afraid to try new foods. I love liver and I tried goats brains on this trip. I didn’t care for …
I’m sitting here itching my fifty or so bug bites and cursing the name Royal Inn. We stayed at the Hotel Royal Inn in Bangalore for twenty three days and I would say fifteen of those days we had a major problem from black mold, to no running water to a possible bed bug infestation. …
I don’t know if I just watched a horse race or a rodeo. I’ve been watching and frantically obsessed with the ponies since I was twelve years old and I’ve never in my life seen anything like what I witnessed in my first horse race in India. Being an American in Indian turf racing has been …
I’ve been awake since 3 a.m. and clearly I am not in the mood to swim in elephant dung. Obviously I must be in India. As our rented car heads farther into the Blue Hills of India my boyfriend is showing me the murky green waters of swimming holes on the sides of the winding mountain road and …
Dating someone not from America sometimes has its challenges Like when I sing thank you for being a friend to a pair of 74 and 57 year old elephants and my boyfriend didn’t get the Golden Girls reference. Or every night I make jokes at night on vacation in India about pushing our single beds …