Monthly Archives: February 2007

What’s been going on….

By Ananda Mahto | Published: February 15, 2007

So, it has been sort of refreshingly quiet the last few weeks. Mostly, it’s because I’m not in a class at the moment, but that should change by Tuesday. There was some problem processing my financial aid application, so they delayed the start date of my class for a couple of weeks, so this has [...]

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Mon. Jan 15 – Floating Around (on a Houseboat in Kerala)

By Ananda Mahto | Published: February 15, 2007

Pretty much, a houseboat experience is something like this: you get up in the morning, have breakfast, lay around waiting for breakfast to digest (they bring coffee to help with this), have lunch, lay around waiting for lunch to digest (in between, you get tea or coffee and biscuits to help you with that), watch [...]

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Sun. Jan 14 – Madurai to Allepy & Houseboat

By Ananda Mahto | Published: February 14, 2007

This was, again, another car ride. Not as long as our first, and surprisingly on schedule. We got to cross the mountains, so again, we had a chance to see some more varied scenery and vegetation on the way—tea plantations, rubber plantations, forests, and so on….

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Sat. Jan 13 – Madurai

By Ananda Mahto | Published: February 13, 2007

This was mostly “temple day” for us in Madurai, with a few extras thrown in. We got started really late (people were still recovering from our bumpy ride I guess…) so we decided to be a little more limited in our adventures. We started by going to the tailors/the temple market so that they could [...]

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Fri. Jan 12 – Chennai to Madurai

By Ananda Mahto | Published: February 12, 2007

Most of Friday was spent in transit to Madurai. The drive, for some reason, took a lot longer than it should have. We left at around 8AM and didn’t get in until the late afternoon… well, more like early evening…. Despite being tiring, the drive was really cool—lots of cows, varied agriculture, varied landscape…. If [...]

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Thurs. Jan 11 – Chennai

By Ananda Mahto | Published: February 11, 2007

Because of jetlag, they were all up pretty early. Technically, we had reserved the morning to unpack their bags and repack them seriously. As could be expected, despite their efforts to travel light, they still came with much much more than they should have. Axle at least had an excuse for her extra bag—it was [...]

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Wed. Jan 10 – Chennai

By Ananda Mahto | Published: February 10, 2007

Amy and I decided that the first part of the business plan was to get the foreigners some decent clothes. I mean, we knew that there was no way to prevent us from sticking out like sore thumbs, but at least wearing kurtis and Indian-looking clothes would reduce the number of full-on stares that we [...]

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WordPress Upgrade Done, and Vacation Stories to Come

By Ananda Mahto | Published: February 10, 2007

So, I just upgraded my WordPress installation, and that seems like a good enough excuse to stop being lazy and start back posting some stories here. Actually, I haven’t really been lazy—just busy. First, it was the holidays—Christmas and New Years. Then, it was lots of school and getting ready for the big Indian vacation [...]

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