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End of the year reflections on our travels
This year, we spent 11 weeks out of the 52, approximately 21% of our year abroad. For me, it’s been a dream come true. I’ve always been an avid traveler. Becoming single mom to 2 littles shut down any big international travel for a while and then once we got our global entry passes and…
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Day 12 India; self tour of Mumbai and return to Portland
The last day in Mumbai, I had initially scheduled nothing, then last week decided to schedule a slum tour (the slum from slumdog millionaire). I was excited to do this but as soon as we arrived in Mumbai, the kids started begging for more down time and I didn’t want to rush things on our…
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Day 11 India. Mumbai and the Elephanta caves
It was so comfortable sleeping in our lovely hotel. I slept pretty well! Just in time to leave here in a couple days and face jet lag again. Z said he was up at 330am for a bit. Poor kid—jet lag seems to go on for him for weeks. Z and I headed to the…
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Day 10 India. Udaipur to Mumbai and Mumbai tour
We rallied and got up at the early time of 520am to get to Udaipur airport and to our 830am flight to Mumbai on time. This also meant saying bye to our driver of 10 days, Jagdish. We gave him a nice tip and it was a sweet goodbye. Here is a photo of him…
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Day 9 India. Udaipur outskirts temple tour, art studio visit and Pichola Lake boat cruise
We started our second full day in Udaipur with a 6ish AM wake up, thankfully, after a late-ish night yesterday. I’ve been feeling restless due to no real exercise for almost a week (except a tiny bit of swimming) and knew I HAD to find a way today. The hotel has a cobblestone paved hilly…
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Day 8 India. Udaipur city tour
We had a pretty long day yesterday and got back late so this post is happening the next morning :-). I appreciate my readers and you checking in on me after lack of a post! Yesterday morning we left our hotel at 930am (apparently things open late here) for the day’s activities. Our driver picked…
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Day 7 India. Jaipur to Udaipur
We spent 8 + hours in the car today. It was a long day and very hard with 2 wild and active boys who then decided to let out all their energy as we were checking into the hotel lobby. Again, every time I do this and we make a transition, I ask myself why…
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Day 6 India—Jaipur leopard reserve, city palace and solar observatory.
We awoke at the bright and early hour of 530am. It was the first day everyone actually slept that late, so a bit ironic, but we were off to the leopard reserve in Jaipur and leopards are nocturnal animals who rest when the sun is up, so we needed to start before sunrise. Our driver…
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Day 5 India. More of Jaipur-Samode.
I think this one will be short. It feels late, jet lag got me again last night, and we have to be up at 530am to leave for our leopard safari. We did a yoga class this morning. It was *Ok.*. Nothing phenomenal but the teacher was nice and tolerant of and amused by my…
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Day 4 India. Jaipur sights, hotel photos and kids’ learning experiences.
Ok I have to start with what time we woke up…it was loud getting to sleep as Jaipur is a busy, crowded city, so I fell asleep to the cacophony of honking horns, buzz of people and various other city noises. I awoke at 245am to a pack of very loud howling dogs and thought,…
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