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"In India, everything is very"

SO. totallygone.com has made it to America's Mid-West!!! Blessings and thanks go to Jake Reimer of Chicago, IL, for politely reminding me that I've not posted this year. So, this post is late. It's been sitting in my virtual tray, waiting for the finishing touches. And time to sit for a few minutes - it's been a hectic couple of weeks.

This blog's title is taken from a conversation this morning with an autorickshaw wallah en-route to Gaya, where I changed some money and purchased tickets for the next leg of my trip - Jaipur. It's verycold here in Bodhgaya; unseasonally so. The temperatures drop to around freezing just before dawn, and don't climb significantly until noon, when the sun breaks through the fog. It's been cold since we (21 pilgrims, an Australian nun, two guides, a bunch of holy objects, and yours truly) left Kathmandu, where the valley provided shelter from the wind and acted as a suntrap throughout the day. The trip from Nepal, on December 27th, was a descent through some of the most spectacular scenery I've seen so far - down through the Himalayan foothills through the rolling scenery south of Kathmandu, where white-water rivers gouge valleys into alpine landscape similar to that of Colorado - into the Terai, a stretch of land forming the edge of the great Indo-Gangetic Plain. Tigers, elephants and rhino inhabit the jungle here which, further south and nearer to sea-level (via some pretty scary hairpin mountain roads, punctuated by the odd landslide or patch of thick fog), gives way to miles and miles of flat grassland - as flat as Idaho, say, or East Anglia. It looked unmistakeably Indian, although we were still some miles from the border and yet to begin our pilgrimage.


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