Goa to Nepal, April 9–13, 2003
The trip from Goa to Mumbai began at 11 AM with the boisterous West Bengali family with whom we were sharing our coupe opening a bottle of whiskey.
It wasn’t long before they were singing and drunkenly expounding on West Bengal’s long legacy of poetry and literature. It seemed like the [...]
Mumbai to Goa, March 31–April 4, 2003
We arrived in Goa on Monday, March 31, 2003, and the vacation began. The scenery got greener as we crawled through Goa and somewhere along the way we picked up Les, a friend of Kara’s.
He’d been traveling across India for the past month or so and had just left [...]
Mumbai, March 30, 2003
We arrived in Mumbai early on the morning of Sunday, March 30, 2003. It was dark and slightly muggy when we got off at some unmarked train station to the north of town.
Everyone moved as one sleepy mass through the terminal (itself filled with sleeping masses) and outside. We had to be [...]
Nepal to India, March 28–30, 2003
Our first destination in India, Goa, was a long way from our homes in Nepal. There were nine of us coming from various parts of Nepal: Bhaktapur, Rajbiraj, Biratnagar, Birtamod, Bhadrapur, and of course Birganj.
We were leaving Nepal overland from Bhairahawa, through Sunauli at the border, and beginning our train [...]
