India

India.  A life goal.  A childhood dream.  Hyderabad, Goa, Dehli, Agra, Jaipur, Mumbai.  Lots of guys.  Poverty everywhere.  Insane roads filled with cars, motorbikes, tuk-tuks, camels, cows, mules, goats, dogs, pigs and people.  Challenging to get around.

A rich culture and passionate people.  Lots & lots of people.

And big weddings!

Seeing Panosh ride a white horse into his wedding, with a beer in his hand and music blasting, people dancing all around him, with a huge goofy grin on his face, was well worth the trip right there.  When Panosh embraces things, he really goes for it, and that is certainly true of the entire Indian experience; the culture, the people and everything in between.

Interesting that each of India's 28 states could actually be their own country.  Each has its own culture and many have their own language, cuisine and even film industry.

Great to see Goa and meet real hippies from the 60s that traveled the hippie trail into Goa and never went back to the west.  Unfortunately, no girls seem to travel to Goa for NYE.  Very few women wandering around India looking for adventure in general, and the lack of free sex makes it tough to be a guy in India, as our cab driver Jimmy explained.

I had one of those life moments when I first saw the Taj Mahal off in the distance.  It was like stepping into an India Jones film.  Something I've dreamed about over the years.  For a split second, the history and the beauty really got hold of me.