India

I arrived Tuesday morning in Amritsar, which is in the North of Punjab, some 27km from the Pakistan border. Again I took a night train, but ended up with an uncomfortabe bed, so I didn’t sleep well. When I did awaken, the train was already stopped in Amritsar. In a panic I [...]

I’m frustrated, and decided that my journal has had nothing but good things so far, so I’ll share something that didn’t work out. Let me start by saying that I’m mostly frustrated with myself.
I decided to go to the border today. Every day before sunset there is a big ceremony, for which hundreds [...]

I already talked some about the Golden Temple, but I feel the need to make a few more observations. It is the most alive place of worship I have ever seen. I have been to many cathedrals in Europe, and a mosque or two, and when services aren’t going on, they are just [...]

Jasdip asked me to write something about my gastronomic adventures here in India. When I first arrived I was extremely cautious. I was paranoid to eat something that would make me sick. My first venture away from hotel food was with the freshly prepared fried food one finds everywhere at small chaat [...]

On Monday night Sarah and I packed up our stuff and headed to New Delhi Railway station to catch the “Golden Temple Express” train to Amritsar (scheduled to leave at 7:35). When we arrived, we discovered that it was delayed by 3:15 minutes. After going out for a chai, we found that the [...]