February 18th to 19th: an all day and night and most of the next day routing to Sevilla How many drinks does it take to fly from Los Angeles to Spain? One… two… three… exponential factorial due to lost time? Let’s go with 7 or 8. This makes me sound like a lush and I […]
Brrr… it’s cold out here. There must be some running in the atmosphere… thankfully they had warming fires at the start line. Utah I taw a marathon in Utah. I did. I did run a marathon in Utah. Through the darkness of future’s past, The magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds… […]
This time of year is always hard on me. Some see it as the beginning of a new year but for me there’s always a sense of endings. It’s a glass half empty time for me, winter and its lingering melancholy. Fortunately, Mom, Steve and Alexis were good enough to travel down the bayou to […]
It’s Groundhog Day! In more ways than one. For the third time in three years and the fifth time since I started running marathons, I drove down to Huntington Beach to run the Surf City Marathon. With a three-year streak, I was technically a legacy runner… though I had to argue the point after the […]
Yesterday, just before setting off on the drive up from Agra to Delhi, we toured one more fort – what was it called? Gods, there have been so many forts. Each one is different and unique and has its own history to tell, but, Sweet Baby Yoda, they all blend together after a while. At […]
I have a confession to make. We went to the Taj Mahal last night to see it at sunset. We didn’t tell our guide this and we vowed to pretend to be gobsmacked when we see it with him this morning. Turns out it was gobsmackable a second time… this time aided by the morning […]
We left a little early today to get a detour in on our trip to Agra. The Bhangarh Fort is billed as the most haunted place in India, with a posted sign warning people not to be there after dark. It’s a former city that now lies in ruins, and there are at least two […]
Ajay is our tour guide for the day; we speed-see the sights and he speed-teaches us hundreds of years of Indian history. A lot of it washes over me and I fail to take notes like I mean to, just trying to absorb it all like a member of the phylum Porifera… aka a sponge. It […]
The drive from Udaipur to Jaipur is supposed to take something like 7 hours. Sitting in the car, I’m suffering a bit of highway hypnosis and drifting in and out of consciousness, head bobbing and knocking the window, jerking me awake as I struggle against my seat belt. The mind wanders as we drive… maybe […]
Last night we ended up seeing the sunset from the Monsoon Palace. Much like my takeaway from the movie props of the City Palace, I was perhaps most impressed with the place as a filming location for the final showdown in 1983’s Octopussy. But I suppose, the sunset was pretty impressive too. Plus, ya know, […]