On Our Way!

It's Christmas Day and we are snowed in! We have been in our pjs all day and are drinking (an amazing red) and planning our way to India: cutting and pasting ideas and images as we get closer and closer to our departure date. We are set to leave Monday (providing the blizzard lets up) and we are more than excited. Having never been to India, we don't quite know what to expect but we do plan on eating and shopping through the North. We have no real plans, as those seem to be more cumbersome than helpful, but we hope to reach: Amritsar, the home of the Sikhs for NYE at the Golden Temple; New Delhi, where it seems we could spends months and months; Agra (the Taj Mahal); Rajasthan, where we hope to ride a camel into the desert and come back with amazing baubles; Gujarat, a dry state home to the last Bedouin tribes in India; back through Delhi on our way to the state of Uttar Pradesh to the textile producing city of Lucknow and the holy city (where the devout go to take their last breaths) of Varanasi, and ending our trip in the literary city of Kolkata. We plan on eating as the locals off of street cars and little hole-in-the-walls and waking early to experience India as she wakes up. We also hope to spend our last days abroad in the ever-enticing city of Istanbul going out for raki-balik.

More to come throughout our days of travel so please tune in for more in the coming days and weeks!