Sunday, May 26 Sweet sleep, a non spicy nibble at breakfast, and a long rest resulted in the best I had felt on the trip. My goal was to have one day that I was well. The conference hotel was Conrad (Hilton) and very fancy. Walking on the sidewalk in the UAE 111 degree heat, […]
Friday, May 24 Still nauseous, DH2 called an Uber rather than us taking the train as scheduled. Thank you. We traveled 4 hours plus a stop for food of which I did not partake. Arriving at the Oberoi, we snaked through a lush entry to the entrance of a beautiful hotel with monkeys playing in
Tuesday, May 21 We hired the trek driver, Krishna, to continue his service so he drove us to Jim Corbett national park. Along the way we stopped for lychee, bananas, and mangoes, marveled at the cows, and for butter paneer lunch. Our first safari had the most exotic animals. We glimpsed a tiger moving through
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Thursday, May 16 An early morning walk led us to an authentic chai shop where the local old men gathered. Our driver arrived on time but we had to stop after 2.5 hours due to traffic obstruction. Fine, we ate breakfast to pass time. We had a few more shortish stops (10 minutes) but then
Sunday, May 12 A 4am wake alarm ushered us to the airport, eating at Tim Hortons (wtf?), and a landing in Dharamshala where we met with our GF who had already been traveling in Bhutan and India for 4.5 weeks. We were treated to a hail storm and violent rain during lunch but unfortunately I
