30 Days in India 2016

It was only thirty days.

Or was it?

“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’” – George Bernard Shaw

Parts of it seem like a dream – equal parts fantastic, equal parts unreal, equal parts dangerous. If it happened, surely it must have happened in the same universe as Oceanic Flight 815. Somewhere in Dubai, when best friends living in Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco decided to meet, the adventure began. So maybe it really was all real?? Reality is just perspective – one person’s dream, another person’s nightmare, both of their realities.  Like Shaw wrote, we said “why not?” And in our world, all of it did seem real – both the weeks that included Kolkata, Varanasi, Bombay, and Udaipur to the days that included the Rickshaw Run commencing in Jaisalmer, passing through Jodhpur, Pushkar, Barr, Jaipur, Agra, Kanpur, Darbhanga, Gorakphur, Jalpaguri, Darjeeling, Cooch Behar before finally coming to its conclusion in Shillong.

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

As I live my life, I will always look back to those thirty days with two of my best friends, as well as meeting new friends, traveling through India as one of the best thirty days of my life. And so even a year later, I am still not finished transcribing all that we lived and all that we saw and all that we felt, but for now, in a nutshell, here’s some of it (more yet to come)…

India: Before the Rickshaw Run…

1. Flight to Dubai – 21 March
2. Frogger in Kolkata – 22 March
3. Holi in Varanasi – 23 March
4. Nightly Pooja in Varanasi – 23 March
5. 76 Years Young in the Scindhia Guest House – 23 March
6. Best Exotic Scindhia Guest House – 23 March
7. A Quick Question
8. Please Respond
9. A Moment in Time
10. Sunrise in Varanasi – 24 March
11. Nightly Pooja in Varanasi – 24 March
12. Leopolds in Mumbai – 25 March
13. Hello Udaipur – 27 March
14. Udaipur in Slo-Mo – 27 March
15. Sunrise in Udaipur – 29 March
16. Indian Superstars
17. Hotel Stays in India

India: the Rickshaw Run…

1. On the Road to Jaisalmer – 30 March
2. Our Balls and Our Night in the That Desert – 31 March
3. Jaisalmer… And So It Begins – 2 April
4. Day 1: Jaisalmer to Jodhpur – 4 April
5. Day 2: Jodhpur to Barr – 5 April
6. Day 3: Barr to Pushkar – 6 April
7. Day 4: Pushkar to Jaipur – 7 April
8. Day 4: Jaipur to Agra… Keeping Our Heads – 7 April
9. Day 6: A Birthday at the Taj – 9 April
10. Day 7: World War Z – 10 April
11. Day 8: I Can’t Drive 55 in Bihar – 11 April
12. Day 9: Still in Bihar – 12 April
13. Day 10: Happy Birthday to ME – 13 April
14. Day 10: 46 Happy Birthdays – 13 April
15. Day 11: Hello Darjelling, I Love You. Won’t You Tell Me Your Name – 14 April
16. Day 12: A Dead Body on the Road to Guwahati – 15 April
17. Day 13: The Finish Line in Shilong – 16 April
18. Day 14: Looking Back on Yesterday – 17 April
19. A Map of Our Month
20. Goodbye India. Hello USA.
21. Goodbye Epic Month. Hello Beethoven.
22. Hotel Stays in India
23. What Was It Like?

Before the Trip…

1. Important Dates
2. Please Donate to Our Charity
3. Please Donate to Our Charity (2)
4. What’s an Auto-Rickshaw, You Say?
5. International Drivers’ Permit
6. What T-Shirt Should We Wear
7. Pimpin’ Our Ride
8. Jaisalmer to Shillong
9. In Search of India on the 101
10. Bollywood Movie Trailer
11. Movie Trailer 1
12. Movie Trailer 1B
13. Movie Trailer 2
14. Movie Trailer 3
15. Movie Trailer 4
16. Fixin’ a Rickshaw
17. Response to Fixin’ a Rickshaw
18. Where’s DaveRisner?
19. Where’s DaveRisner (2)
20. DaveRisner Follows Up
21. It’s Getting Real
22. India in Time
23. The Adventure Begins
24. We’re Gonna Be Movie Stars!

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