I only took three pictures in Goa. To be honest, I was disappointed by Goa.  I first heard about Goa when I was deployed to Afghanistan. I had the India bug back then, too, and I was 24 and determined to go […]Read More ›

Hampi was my second to last stop in India.  The city is an archeologist’s paradise. Everywhere in Hampi there are temple ruins, interspersed with bright green rice paddies.  And on the horizon, there are rock formations similar to what you might find […]Read More ›

Mysore, India is about 91 miles southwest of Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India. I took a sleeper train from Kochi to Bangalore and a bus from Bangalore to Mysore.  The sleeper train was quiet, air conditioned, and comfortable but […]Read More ›

Kochi is known as the “Queen of the Arabian Sea,” and according to National Geographic it is one of the world’s top 50 destinations. Over the years, people have come to the port of Kochi from all over the world; […]Read More ›

I left Varkala and took a boat approximately two hours to the backwaters of Kerala, just outside of Alleppey. One of the locals gave me an orientation of the Kerala backwaters, during which time I saw a plethora of coconut trees […]Read More ›