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India- Part One - A teaser

India is quite different from the USA.  That is my favorite part about it.  I have never even left the country save for Vancouver and Tijuana.  So to end up on the other side of the world in Asia was a little shocking, and a lot exhilirating.  Pictures will, of course, not be sufficient in describing the bombardment of the senses that occurs when a westerner enters the east.  The colors, smells, and sounds will be missing from these photographs.  The mountains of the Himalaya are not provided any justice in a pixilated 3X5 photo on a laptop screen.  

I think over the next few weeks I will post a few pictures from different locations in India.  We'll start with some mountains.  But I took exactly 666 pictures on my memory cards and I have one more memory card coming back with a friend very soon.  I will give links to view all the pics in the near future.  In the meantime, enjoy the periodic updates...

--Looks like Nanda Devi but it's not.  Just a random gigantic peak.

--A fine place to sit down and read.  Looking into the Rishi Gorge.

--Village Lata at the beginning of the serious trekking

--One of many beautiful "classrooms".  This one at the bungalow in Auli.  Our home away from home as we stayed there four nights (on two seperate occasions.)