First Post
Well, the countdown is on -- six days until we board an airplane for the marathon flight to Mumbai, India. We decided to take advantage of Cathay Pacific's offer of free stopovers anywhere enroute, and are spending three days in Singapore. The decision was made mainly as an attempt to break up the two-day transit and the bizarre, discombobulating effect of traveling across the dateline.

A loosely planned itinerary has us landing in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) January 12th, heading down the west coast to Goa and some beach time at Palolem, then to slowly make our way up to Rajasthan and the Thar Desert, across to Varanasi for the Ghats of the Ganges and Agra, of course, to see the Taj Mahal. This itinerary will surely change, likely on a daily basis, and there is no accounting for side trips, ramblings, three-day train delays, flights of fancy or gastro-intestinal recovery days. We fly out of Delhi 94 days later on April 8th.

This afternoon we are heading into the travel clinic to get the third in a series of Hep B shots. The previous two left our arms aching and more or less useless for 24 hours.

We're still working the kinks out of how this blog will look and read. For instance, Esther and I are both sitting here at the computer, but I'm (Angelo) writing.

If you would like to keep in touch, email us: angeloesther@hotmail.com


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