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north india, part iii – agra & delhi.

agra.
a night in
a hotel we’d
been to once before,
just for tea
after a long
day of sightseeing,
but still a memory.
this time
we were actually
staying there.
maddy was a crying mess
when we arrived,
drooling and flailing,
turning the heads
of a giant group
of german tourists.
i recognized a
couple of them
from earlier today,
and realized that they
were part of the
same group of
people [...]

north india, part i – delhi & jaipur.

(another picture-heavy post)
after almost a
month in the south
of india,
i decided that we
needed to take a
short trip up north
to see some
of things that
everyone should
see when visiting india.
besides, i had
to comply with
rachel’s thinly-veiled threat,
“i’m not coming to india and not seeing the taj mahal.”

on this day…

on this day...

the taj mahal was
her playground.
and i couldn’t
have been more thrilled
to see the smile
on her face,
as she ran
around, screaming
for joy.

heat, or lack thereof.

heat, or lack thereof.

we
walked here,
in the same place
you now stand,
through a uttar pradeshian summer,
the two of
us,
hand-in-hand until
we could no longer.
still we walked
near one another,
separated by it,
yet kept close
because of it.
we learned about this
place, hearing how it
and a lack of water
drove them
from here.
we both understood
then, why otherwise
rational human beings
would leave behind
years of hard work and
forgo such [...]

 

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