Mawlynnong won an award a few years ago for being the cleanest village in Asia. It is proud of that designation, and rightly so. The village is almost utopian-like in its cleanliness. When we were hiking, we went quite far out of the town before I saw even one potato-chip…
When we got up to head to Meghalaya, Bonnie had prepared breakfast and sent us off with a wave for our journey with Dean. We drove out of Shillong and headed into the hills on a road that is under a lot of construction. In some places, it’s still dirt…
After a couple of days in Kolkata, I got onto another overnight train, headed for Guwahati. Jayanthi and Alec had been out of town when I returned to Kolkata and both returned from their travels ill. They weren’t quite up to the difficulties of a full day on a train,…
