Golden Waters Kumarakom

... morning I wake up only to find no taxi. After waiting, he arrives in the wrong vehicle, but I no longer care so we go. The park itself is pretty lousy, even though the Lonely Planet states it is the most beautiful area of Kerala (which I disagree). Regardless I see wild elephants, peacocks...and monkeys. I decide to leave S. Bathery for its only savior is the decent bakery next to the hotel.

I'm outta here...

... India. By now I have become accustom to this country, though some things I find silly and strange. Like filling up cars full of people, anywhere from 10-15 people shoved in a car Some unfortunate souls do not even get a seat on top of someone, so they simply hang outside the cars, gripping for sheer life around the hairpin curves, coughing up exhaust. Some other things I have also learned is that every vehicle has been blessed with a God name written in cheerful ...

... pick up the papers needed to get Eddie his visa. Unfortunately, the building manager objected to this and wanted permission from the apartment’s owner for this to happen. Finally the permission was obtained, the papers retrieved and an extra key was cut. But wait, there’s more. Eddie needs to print out another document, sign it and fax it to Warren. That will be done tomorrow (Sunday).

Next it was off in our car to visit the Zuri resort just ...

... and bedsheets with that chilled weather roaming inside the room.

Day2

After breakfast we planned out to Balaji temple in the early morning then we thought will decide on the next location followed by that. Breakfast was done @8am and which is more in line with our plan to start @8.30am. We reached Balaji Temple by 9.50am and spent good time there. The construction work was damn good in the top of the hills. The temple was initiated in the year 1984 and ...

... and the sadness in me and give my life a clean bill of health in order to restart here? Should I purge the childish feeling of love and hate inside me so that I will no longer suffer from the cold shoulder offered by the others to my passion? So that I can immune to humanness and become again a pure existence of impartiality and professional efficiency?

My beloved Beatriz, tell me.

... of what they were going to pick tomorrow got ruined. Mamaji said it will take about two weeks of good growth to recover. Hopefully that doesn't happen again. We arrived at the tea estate after a "house chase." We had to ask for help from at least 3 different people, and found it, because everyone in town knows them and knows where the tea estate is. There was someone waiting outside the gate when we got to the right road.

... of four to five units in one line, 'p*di' in loc*l l*ngu*ge. M*n*l*roo Est*te runs * school *nd * hospit*l for the workers *nd their children.

... somewhere nice to hang out for the day, so we jumped in a rickshaw and braved the madness of the Mumbai traffic once again. We headed for one of the swankiest hotels, the JW Marriott in Juhu Beach. We settled in for the day, used all their facilities and had a buffet lunch which consisted of the best spread either of us had ever seen. All you could eat (including starters, main course, dessert, cheese platter, unlimited coffee and petit fours) for the ...

... around 9AM and on the way to the dock to disembark, the crew cooked us our final breakfast. With everyone packed and ready, we reached the dock, said our goodbyes to the crew and jumped into an awaiting mini-van that Kate had procured to take us 1.5 hours back to Cochin for a bit of sightseeing (and for the girls...a bit of shopping...kill me now). The first place we stopped off was my favorite...to check out the Chinese Fishing ...

... area, it was more than un-comfortable. considering I'm only wearing a 'string' to cover the old boy, which by now is doing no such thing, you would think they would at the very least, 'edge round it' Nope. Didn't seem to bother them, and neither did, rubbing the inside of my thighs, bashing my nut sac around like a punch bag. Think this is bad? wait till they turned me over! To be honest it was a relief that I could finally protect the family jewels from the over enthusiastic ball ...