Having left India by the time of writing this, I can honestly say that a weekend visit to Pune was among the most meaningful experiences of my entire adventure.

Known both as the “Blue City”, and the “Sun City” throughout India, Jodhpur has stood for over 500 years within Rajasthan’s Marwar region, which A.J. translated to “land of death”

From Fatehpur Sikri, we continued westward to Rajasthan (Sanskrit for “Land of Kings”), the largest Indian state by area, and seventh by population…

The past four days have been a whirlwind. Nathan and I explored what is called the “Golden Triangle”, referring to the triangular shape that marks the routes connecting Delhi, Agra, and Jaipur…

In my last post, I promised some “first impressions” of India, and then delivered the most vague paragraph ever, so here’s a little more detail on a couple of the bigger differences from my perspective.

India is an all-encompassing assault on your senses, assumptions, and values. It’s as if you’re rebooting your entire nervous system, and then reverting back to a child-like state of questioning everything you see and feel.

From being stranded on a foreign highway, to clutching the driver of a snowmobile racing up a mountain in darkness, the first ten hours of a journey to Northern Italy were among the most difficult.