Monday, Mar 16th, Baga, India
Greetings!
(From Pat, she wrote this to some friends while I have been struggling to get my Mac Air to work. No new photos until I find a way to fix it, or get my cell phone to do the work the MacAir has been doing)
We are in Goa for 4 days of beachside relaxation. The last bit has been full of 5th to 15th century temples, lots of climbing to see them, so we are happy to be lazy for a while. The corona virus response is starting to catch up with us. We left our last hotel in Badami to learn it was closing the next day as was our previous hotel in Hampi. We are filling out forms to enter all the national sites and some are taking our temps.
The fact that we have been in India for more than the incubation period has helped I think, but other Indian tourists are starting to cover their noses and mouths as they come near us. Weird.
We just bid farewell to our driver for the last 24 days (Bijou, a Christian from Cochin/Kochi. He was a great companion. Driving in India is a whole other skill. It calls for copious use of a horn every time when one passes a car, truck or motorbike which is continual. They pass everything they come across. Also speed bumps (three to 11 in a row) are very frequent but we are totally blasé about it by now.
I hope you peek at the blog to get an idea of the beauty of this country. We have been well this digestively. Greg's infected foot cut is just about healed thanks to four RXs he was given. I hope you are managing this virus response. Do send a note, we miss you. Namaste.
Pat
Update - Somehow this didn't get sent yesterday. We learned today that we will be restricted to our room in Bombay Mumbai for 2 days on the day we arrive the day after tomorrow, then fly on to Jaipur which is as of now not restricted but I think it could catch up with us and we may be housebound for the rest of our trip (Bombay, Jaipur, Agra and Delhi) well I've stocked up on eBooks.
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