3 ½ Months of Backpacking Across India

I spent nearly four months backpacking across India and still feel like I barely scratched the surface. The adventures on this page chronicle that adventure.

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Small Islands and Big Cities: A Farewell to India

Small Islands and Big Cities: A Farewell to India

As much as we fought it and considered not doing it, the time finally came to leave India. Right now Carrie and I are in the hill station of Kandy in Sri Lanka and will be traveling around this amazing undiscovered country for the next few weeks. Then we hop …
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Paradise on the Andaman Islands

Paradise on the Andaman Islands

The Andaman Islands are a series of un and barely-touched islands off the east coast of India that Carrie and I have been talking about since arriving. So, after our two weeks of manual labor in Sadhana Forest we packed our bags and headed to paradise. The plane from Chennai …
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Aren’t We Supposed to be Relaxing Here? Then Why Are We Doing So Much Stuff!

Aren’t We Supposed to be Relaxing Here? Then Why Are We Doing So Much Stuff!

Despite being in paradise, we managed to keep ourselves busy. We went scuba diving twice and saw some of the most amazing corals either of us have ever laid eyes on and more fish than I have seen on any other dive in my life. At one point we encountered …
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Sending One Final Package Turns into an Ordeal in Chennai

Sending One Final Package Turns into an Ordeal in Chennai

After landing in Chennai from the Andaman Islands, our first priority was to send a package home from the main post office. We hopped on a local train and made it with what we thought was plenty of time to get a box and wrap up the parcel. When we …
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It Takes Two Days in Chennai to Buy a Plane Ticket

It Takes Two Days in Chennai to Buy a Plane Ticket

With our pacakge off in the mail, it was time to find an Internet cafe to book a ticket to Sri Lanka for 7:30am the next morning. However, we quickly learned that you couldn’t book an e-ticket less than 24 hours before the flight. Next we tried to call the …
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Small Islands and Big Cities: This and That

Small Islands and Big Cities: This and That

During one day of scuba diving we swam through seas of jellyfish. No joke, hundreds of them at the surface. The craziest part was coming up from below and seeing a wall of pink ahead of us and knowing that we had to swim through it to get back onto …
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Small Islands and Big Cities: Photos and Videos

Small Islands and Big Cities: Photos and Videos

Havelock Island and Port Blair Photos: Chennai Photos: Videos: