I guess if a circle doesn't close, it is incomplete…? Does it lose strength? Does it deflate, or allow bad winds to invade its beautiful core? Still, you run a finger in the sand, tracing the outline of the sun, or the outline of the moon, you begin with a point at the tip of …
Having finished my early yoga, I come from the room and enter the hotel courtyard, and the senses, which have fed me quietly throughout the night, fill with the picture of a Goan morning: crickets still sing in the cool temperatures, while a wide variety of birds welcome the day in conversation… saying what? All …
Yesterday’s motorcycle tour of the closest beaches was such a success, I decided to hold onto the bike one more day, and take a morning trip further north, toward the ruins of the old Portuguese fort at Cabo-de-Rama, up past Agonda Beach. Manny had promised a phone call home at nine AM this morning, and …
Some of the things we thought would work well actually did… and others we learned on the way. Here are a few thoughts we'd like to remember next time around. If any are useful to you, bravo! There's some wisdom well won. Nail scissors Useful for trimming all kinds of things besides your nails… Flip-top toothpaste Small plastic jar fits …
Today we took to the roads of Goa; perhaps a risk to lives and limbs, except we promised ourselves to stick to the smaller roads. On "Main Street" — I had tongue-in-cheekily named it that after our first stroll among its multitude of vendors and restaurants, only to find that it is, in fact, …
A few thoughts on what has been less effective — in the practical sense — on this extended study tour to tropical climes, and which I would gladly let go on any return visit. While mostly personal preference, a little reality check for future travelers to India… Water Filter/Iodine Bottled water is available almost everywhere, …
Just before dawn only a few roosters have roused themselves — or never went to bed — and with most humans still in bed, I can hear the falling of the surf away here inland. Yoga is sweet and quiet, Manny still in bed; then a quiet seat in the restaurant gazebo and time to …
The waves amble onto the beach at a leisurely pace, one smallish wave every ten seconds, six waves per minute — as unhurried and undemanding as the restaurants or services here, a definition in action for the word languid. In some magical configuration of sea and sand, the waves which fall to earth are reflected …
Hm. The face of India changes yet again, and we poor freshmen have to shift our energies to make space for it. The beach at Palolem, in southern Goa, is every bit as riveting as we had heard it would be. The essential coconut palms providing shade overhead, the incredibly gentle surf that is warm …
Manny Muros: I have always had a lot of faith and trust in the goodness of the Universe… A believe that things will always work out for the best. The desire to simply see clearly what is in front of me. Traveling thru India we have had lots of practice on moving toward a general certain …
Interesting to watch the broad movements of the brush, see what is being painted as we work our way across the country and through our allotted travel time. We began with the shock of arrival, followed that with the shock of the new, and the shock of being changed… then the shock of allowing change …
Fortunately, I can make a better report of this beach myself. Whatever was up with people yesterday (and I do include myself in that population) — the fights, the unsmiling eyes, the shabby shacks — seemed to have eased with the setting of the sun, and Manny and I found ourselves sitting up on the …