We’ve been here before… Remember the video-meme of the sun and the local planetary system hurling through space and leaving a spiraling, conical wake through spacetime, well… I don’t mean[…]
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Category: James’ Blog
A Great Circle
We sailed a great circle over the last week. Not in the traditional sense of navigating along the shortest path, but in the equinoctial Chesapeake sailor’s way. And we looked[…]
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Home again, home again…
We have definitely arrived! Our crew here in the MRE dressed our boat up like an Easter doll for us! The guys at Coastal and Bacon, and our very own[…]
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2 Days at Mahabs
What should we do for James’s birthday? The shopping area can’t hold our attention for long. I know… More stuff to haul 12,000 km… Hmm, the lighter, the better. How[…]
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Meenakshi Amman Temple
If you’re thinking what I was thinking, yes! Meen as in meen kappa (fish curry with boiled tapioca/coconut/tumeric), but in this case, Meenakshi as in fish eyed, an old-fashioned compliment[…]
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Madurai Mad
We arrived in Madurai at nearly midnight, after an emergency dental tightening and a long train ride. First thing, right after we left the train station proper, a young man[…]
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The first draft
Many people that I’ve known through out my (James’) life have expressed a philosphy about the third person, an individual personality that is (okay) “born” from two people that love[…]
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Puja!!!
So we live on the 6th story, which is actually the 10th floor, of this very bizarre semi-finished building in the middle of nowhere called PTC-Aquavista. (Okay, so it’s not[…]
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This is Tamarind
We went to a new lunch place today and got pretty freaked out. Prakash said we should check out the canteen at NISH (an institute for those with communication struggles),[…]
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The rule of thumb…
…Here in Akkulam is; Honk first, then enter traffic as fast as you can, looking both ways only after reaching break-neck speed. This rule is especially important if you have[…]
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