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Vacation India, part 4

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 [...]

Vacation India, part 1

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 [...]