Category Archives: 2007 Vacation
Fri. Jan 26 – Driving to Delhi… and a little bit of tourism….
Good roads really do make a difference. The drive from Jaipur to Delhi was totally painless and quick. However, it seemed to be very disconcerting to Henny, who really didn’t like all the big trucks. She actually said at one point how terrible it was, and how she would much rather take the small bumpy [...]
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Thurs. Jan 25 – Jaipur forts and shopping
Henny wanted to know the whole time in Jaipur, how can people who built these impressive forts and who were so smart still be taken over in battle? I don’t think I was paying enough attention to the guides or reading enough of the stuff at the sites we visited to find out, but they [...]
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Wed. Jan 24 – Forts and Observatories in Jaipur
Axle’s not feeling too hot today. She seems to have a pretty horrible cough and just sounds generally groggy. I’m actually somewhat surprised that she is the first to get sick, but I don’t know if it’s a stomach thing or a chest thing. She thinks it’s just a chest thing, which may actually be [...]
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Tues. Jan 23 – Where are the tigers?
We get up extremely early and head out to find out if we have managed to get a Jeep for ourselves. After waiting for some time, we find out that Amy’s pressuring got us one, and that it would be here in a few minutes. It’s freezing—even for me—and being in an open Jeep doesn’t [...]
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Mon. Jan 22 – Fatehpur Sikri and a bumpy ride to Ranthambore
This morning, we found out that Mr. Lucky wouldn’t be able to join us on the rest of our trip. We had just begun to break him in! Anyway, his replacement, who went by either Bakshi or Raj, seemed to be a lot of fun from the start, so we weren’t too worried about anything. [...]
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Sun. Jan 21 – Agra, Agra Fort, and the Taj Mahal
View from Agra Fort…. Just as Ajanta and Ellora was the “must see” for Axle, the Taj Mahal was the “must see” for Karin. So, after pulling in some two hours late and being greeted by our short, very tidy and courteous Sikh driver—Mr. Lucky—getting some breakfast, and checking in to our hotel, we wasted [...]
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Fri. Jan 19 – Ellora Caves
It’s hard to consider some of these as “caves” but they really are carved into the mountain. There’s a cool story about why the main structure was carved out of the mountain rather than built like a normal building, but that’s for another day… This day was both spectacular and—for the lack of a more [...]
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Thurs. Jan 18 – Various Modes of Transportation
This day was interesting because we managed to pack in three different modes of transportation in one day. We started out early in the morning driving from Mysore to Bangalore. In Bangalore, we got on a plane to go to Mumbai. In Mumbai, we got a train to go to Jagaon.
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Sat. Jan 27 – In Delhi, living like royalty…