Friday, February 12, 2010

hello hello from Gao's capital city, Panjim. We decided to venture off the tourist beach and start our journey south towards kerala with many stops along the way. on our way in search of a taxi out of town, we were picked up (after almost being run over) by a local bus. it was quite an experience. the driver stopped inches away from luke and leaned his head out the window to ask if we wanted to get on! of course we did!! the bus was a whopping 18 cents, compaired to a taxi that wanted to charge us $7! As soon as we stepped on, we were greatful we had turned down our taxi. the bus was blasting amazing india music and there was a boy who sat by the door and opened and closed it anytime we stopped for someone, closing it again with a string. over the head of the driver was a shrine equipped with blinking lights and chains of yellow and orange flowers. it was something else, a bit hard to explain. we decided that we prefered this way of travel much more than the taxi and took a second bus on to panjim. after about a half hour in the panjim bus station trying to decide where we wanted to head to next we decided to throw out (not really) our 97 lbs. lonely planet book and just hop our way down the coast, experiencing everyday india as it comes at us instead of planning in typical tourist fashion. so here we are now with a little room on a street that feels a bit like europe and all the time in the world ahead of us!

miss you all.

5 comments:

  1. yay! can't wait to see pics! ~liz

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  2. I forgot about hairy canary - I'm going to bring it baaaack...

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  3. Luke and Rose, sounds like an amazing experience. Thanks for updating the blog and hope you'll figure out the photo thing. Try to stay out of the way of traffic! Love, Mom (Barb)

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  4. What a LIFE!!!!!! Your messages sounds very OPEN and full of newness!!! what are the colors like.... the trees, clothing, homes, food, ocean, sand, cars, buses.... are the eyes of the people telling? Nice to hear over and over that you have avoided being hit, THIS IS GOOD!!!

    Still praying (on my knees) for both of you! sounds like you are becoming "Fishers of Near Misses!"

    Love to you both! Margo

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