Back on US soil

We're "safe" and sound.

Delilah collapsed in London, I think just feeling so comfortable in a friends' house. She still has a fever and her first earache (yeow!)

We're moping around here. We got our car back today. We still don't have our dog. Apparently the woman craing for him likes him so much she wants to keep him a few more days.

Some photos:

Rickshaw in Delhi

Auto rickshaw. We called them velociraptors in Menali. (remember the movie Jurassic Park?) They were about head height for me and Miles, and just zooomed around, quite frightening us sometimes.

Running around le Corbusier's High Court in Chandigargh

Hindu pilgrims on side of road on last flat before we headed into mountians. I was intrigued: these folks had no bags with them, no bottles of water. They generally waved as they passed other Hindus with orange or red flags (as our driver had). This was near the landslide that happened a week before we arrived. Many, many bike riders, motorcycles riders, jam packed cars going on a pilgrimage.

Temple in Mandi

Books! En route between Mandi and Manali.

Roadside tea

With Hookum, our first driver from Delhi-Chandigargh-Mandi-Manali