So, it was my birthday yesterday. I think I have lived long enough that I need to be reminded that it is my birthday. I completely forgot that I was born on a September 20 a few decades ago. When I started to get birthday wishes from friends and families, I had to look at the calendar to check out that it really was my birthday. LOL. There was nothing fancy about how I celebrated my birthday this time. In…
You might want to read through my previous post : Rishikesh – The Valley of Saints When things were not going any better up in the mountains, with news of landslides and temporary closure of roads are all over, we decided to push for Joshimath no matter what. I did consult some of the locals though, and they told me how landslides are very common occurrences up in the mountains, and that the locals have now become so good in…
So, I went to India for the second time recently – this time to the Uttarakhand region in the far North of India. Due to the location which is so far into the Himalayan region and hundreds of kilometers from New Delhi where we landed, it had proved to be one of the most difficult travel trips that I’ve ever had to plan thus far. We took a bus from the Inter State Bus Terminal in New Delhi all the…