The 3 J’s of Rajasthan

The 3 J’s of Rajasthan

India has a lot of different states, all of which have very different characteristics. However, unlike in the USA, each state is often massive. For instance, we spent most of the first few weeks of our trip in Rajasthan, which is in the Northeast of the country. Everything from my …
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Let’s Talk About Lines…Or What Passes as Them in India

Let’s Talk About Lines…Or What Passes as Them in India

Lines are an essential part of life in Western society and are usually organized and formal. This is not the case in India, where they are something of a maddening experience of disorder, pushing and cutting.
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A Camel Safari Through the Desert…With Delhi Belly

A Camel Safari Through the Desert…With Delhi Belly

Jaisalmer, India One of the things Carrie and I were most excited about thus far was a camel safari through the desert next to Jaisalmer (a desert town in the far west corner of India, around 75 miles from the Pakistan border). The town itself is architecturally one of the …
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A Morning in the Emergency Room

A Morning in the Emergency Room

The tail end of the camel safari tale found us getting into Jaipur at 4:30am, convinced that we had parasites in our system that were causing the Delhi Belly. As such, we wanted to get our poo tested and the man at the train station sent us to the emergency …
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A Visit to la Casa de Avani

A Visit to la Casa de Avani

While working at Travel Ad Network this past year in NYC, I was fortunate enough to become friends with my coworker Avani, who after graduating from NYU spent a year in the American workforce before returning to her hometown of Jaipur. After months of talking about coming to visit, Carrie …
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How to Stay in a Hotel for $4 – $6 Per Night in India

How to Stay in a Hotel for $4 – $6 Per Night in India

These guesthouses are less a hotel than a closet-sized room with a bathroom and, if we’re lucky, a hot water shower attached. Usually the room has badly-painted and peeling concrete walls and one florescent light with no insulation.
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Prices and Living on the Cheap

Prices and Living on the Cheap

People always ask Carrie and I how can we possibly afford to travel for eight months (hopefully). Did we win the lotto? Are we secretly crazy rich? Nope…it’s the prices here that allow it to happen…and the hotel situation as I just wrote. Below is just a short list of …
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The 3 J’s of Rajasthan This and That

The 3 J’s of Rajasthan This and That

It’s a bit unnerving, but I’ve started writing this entry on a bus. No sooner did I take the laptop out than every awake eye around us started staring to see what I was doing. Still, I have no worries about safety as it is a full bus in the …
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The 3 J’s of Rajasthan Photos and Links

The 3 J’s of Rajasthan Photos and Links

As always, photos and videos from our latest adventures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/greggoodman/sets/72157612404702676/ and the link to a great video of mosque calls at sunset by Carrie http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=ztieHybQEkw

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