Leaving India
It's hard to believe that it's been two months in India, I'm not ready to go! Next time, six months.
I've got a lot of hard travel in front of me for the next three days. Tonight I take a 3-hour taxi from Dharamsala to Chakki Bank, then an overnight train to Delhi, then I fly to Bombay, where I reserved a crappy hotel room to sleep in for four or five hours before taking a 5am flight to Bangkok. Then I spend the day there and fly to Phuket at 8pm, crash at some random hotel, wake up the next morning, and take a 2-hour ferry to Koh Lanta. Oh my!
But it'll be worth it. I've been warned that Phuket is horrible, but I decided to go to Thailand last winter standing outside a Williamsburg bar with my friends Eric and Camille. They said we'll be there, come meet us! So I am going. Our time doesn't overlap much, only three days or so before they have to go back to Singapore, hence the breakneck travel plans.
So in a few hours I am off. I wish I had more time here, but that's always the story. It's been wonderful to catch up with friends that I haven't seen since Goa, as well and hang out with new ones. But, onward...