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Delhi
In this video, a chipmunk chirps on the porch of our vacation rental in Delhi, India. The landlord, an educated man, told us that one of the tenants before us was a Korean Buddhist monk who claimed to be able to talk to animals. One day, the landlord walked in on the monk who was sitting quietly on the porch, surrounded by birds. The monk told the landlord that the birds in Delhi were "sad". ...
A pigeon scavengers for food as we wait to check-in at the luggage counter at Indira Ghandi International Airport in Delhi, India. ...
The Delhi monsoon brought in heavy rains each afternoon. Water would flood the streets, making it hard to drive and icky to walk. In this video, the taxi driver is taking us to the Indira Ghandi Airport in Delhi for our flight to the Kangra Airport in Dharamshala. ...
In India, it isn't always easy to decipher what people are doing. In this video, Lydi and I watch some men who stand around looking at five bricks sitting on top of an apartment building across the way as though they planned to build something big. ...
We saw a number of patriotic parades in northern Delhi when we visited in August, 2016. We got to see this parade from our apartment on the fourth floor. ...
In northern India, in both Delhi and the Mcleodganj area, we received things like eggs and rice from vendors in these handmade newspaper bags. I don't know whether the vendors made them themselves or someone else made them and sold them to the vendors. Either way, it's innovative and resourceful!
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It's hard to describe India to anyone who hasn't been there. There's no reprieve from it, even inside when we're "at home". The particular apartment that we rented was in a "nice" area of Delhi, but the furnishings had crusty stains all over them and the silverware was "sticky". There were pubic hairs all over our sheets. So we cleaned the sheets, wiped off the crusty stains, and washed the silverware. But ...
While sitting in traffic in Delhi, India, I decided to film these people doing something. It looks like they're just going about their normal, everyday activities--there are clothes hanging on a line, a bicycle, and it looks like they're doing something with water. We'd just passed a woman who'd placed a tiny baby down in a dusty median along a busy street to sleep, which was what prompted me to turn my ...
On a grocery outing in our neighborhood in Delhi, John and I walk to see the local granary before stopping at the fresh fruit and vegetable vendors. The streets are dirty and dusty and filled with cows and trash. ...
What the hell are these people DOING? The Holiday Inn in Delhi is a fairly nice hotel in India (as compared, for example, with places where the mattresses and pillows are molding), but this is just another reason why we NEVER swim in swimming pools outside of the United States. It makes my skin crawl just watching this video! ...
We visited northern India two years ago in 2014, when the Ebola epidemic was in full-swing and terrorist threats were plastered all across the Delhi news. We’d spent 30 days in Nepal when we made our way back through Varanasi and Delhi over the course of about 9 days. It was one of the most difficult trips we’d ever done in part because we’d gotten rabies shots in Nepal, which left us tired and weak, and ...
As we flew into Delhi on August 8th, I read about the outbreak of Dengue Fever happening in Delhi this year. I’d expected problems like Dengue in the south while we were in the state of Tamil Nadu in Chennai. Before traveling there, I’d expected Chennai to be fairly “wet” and humid. I figured that mosquitos would be more of a problem in the south than in Delhi, but apparently, I was wrong.
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In 2002, we were so poor, there was a time when we couldn’t afford to buy eggs and John had to bum change off a guy who was almost as poor as we were to buy gas to get home from John’s newspaper route (he had 2 of them at the time). That was in the first few months post-9/11. Our business had gone belly-up. Work prospects had dried up. I was pregnant at the time. And we’d just bought our first house along ...