Videos India

We spent the morning sitting on a teashop bench, watching the decorated trucks and buses drive by. I was just… about to leave when Paul said, “Grace, wait. I see something else coming.”

Schools out for the day.  And if you should chance upon foreign cyclists, why not stop them and ask them… where they’re from.

In India, shrines are everywhere. We came across elephants who bestow blessings, Hanuman statues carved in rock faces, termite mounds… draped in gold cloth and even Ganesh’s face painted on tree trunks.

Traveling through the painted towns, we gaped at the opulent murals. Nowadays many houses are abandoned, with only caretakers to… look after them.

At a truck stop, a Sikh chauffeur showed us where we were on the map while the mechanics wanted to… know what was in our water bottles. (Whiskey? diesel?) The place was a world in itself since the mechanics lived behind their workshops.

Distracted by the movie billboards, Grace collided with a rickshaw. Thankfully nothing was damaged and they were both able to… pedal on.