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 …
Today we were planning to go to Russell Market and check out enough cows carcasses to offend most of my vegetarian friends. There is also a pet market there to explore and a fish market, not to mention a bird market, fruit stalls, fish market, livestock market, etc. Well, it would seem that you can …
Todays Kamma-Manhattan adventure included getting a six dollar haircut and paying four dollars for the supplies to make Christmas dinner. It also included exploring the only “organic” store in Bangalore. If you come to Bangalore India and expect to eat healthy you are in for quite a challenge! For the first nine days of our …