aaah india

Today I ate a lovely lunch with a view of the river and watched a body burn. sorry to be so crude. But its true. Nowhere else I'VE been in this crazy world can you eat lunch with a nice view of the river while a cremation ceremony is underway at the water's edge on the other side of the river. Nowhere but India. Life on your doorstep.
I feel a little "lax" in my duties as a travel writer here. For one, i'm not really travelling so much, i'm more sort of... camping out, so i guess i start to not see things that have become everyday to me. But there are still monkey fights and cow encounters and other random things.
hmmm. Things are really very quiet here in January. Very relaxed. All the store owners are just kicking back. Indians go with the flow. So business is down, they hardly stress about it. This is life as it ebbs and flows.
I like it. Its nice and cool and peaceful compared to october, november or march.
In two days I head to Delhi on the night train, so i'm sure that will turn over an observation or two.
From there i will fly to kathmandu, nepal to get the visa process underway.
when i get back to rishikesh at the end of january i start my teacher training which goes for one month.
i'm about half way through my trip i realized. wow. the time has gone by so fast.