This was a brief effort to share planning for the 2019 trip with my travel partner, Ann Sawyer. We scarcely used this in the eventuality, but we did make the trip, and it was a fantastic, totally great one.

Maybe another time I’ll expatiate on that trip, and also devote some time to the shorter 2018 one, but this is not the time. There are many photos of the trip that Ann and I have put up in the clouds, however, and I’ll share links to those and some others from India, including 2018 below. Note that there are sometimes comments on the photos that you can find in various ways with various browsers. Also note that this material has not been carefully edited yet, and may never be, Life keeps fleeting away from me.

Not much here, mostly about one side trip to a Mexican restaurant my son’s family really liked. Just myself and the family this time. We did take a short trip to a gussied-up former Raj hill retreat not far north of Mumbai. And I did a guided tour of the largest slum in that large city. See the India 2019 takeaways for a good link out to the slum reality. And remember, slums in India are by no means the same thing as over here in the States.

Too much here, but many are commented on. See the two links below for more thoughtfully arranged selections. Sadly none of them adequately thought-out or prepared…

I started this as a summary of my main takeaways from this fantastic 6-week trip north, south, west and Mumbai, especially focused on temples and ashrams and the spiritual life. But only completed the first part, looking at the fact of “no sense of public space” as a major explainer for much that is puzzling in India on the surface of things.

STILL, DON’T MISS THE LINK at the end to an outside video made by Jacob Laukaitis about his week-long stay in the slums of Mumbai. It is truly revealing, interesting, and … it’s there.

This is a collection I made for myself to be able to find pix of aspects of the trip that I wanted to show people – instead of needing to page through the huge collection in India Trip 2019.