TRAVELS WITH MOM - Table of Contents Email sent from my home in Mount Prospect, Illinois on April 5, 1999, three days after we returned from our trip: Friends: We're both back safely in the U.S., getting back into the grind of work and enjoying the clean

TRAVELS WITH MOM - Table of Contents Our final email from Delhi, India on March 29, 1999: We've been in Delhi for a few days, so I'll send this update today and then probably one more when we head for home this Friday. Time sure flies

TRAVELS WITH MOM - Table of Contents Email sent from Delhi, India on March 26, 1999: Friday morning, we went to the rock garden in Chandigarh. To understand the role of this rock garden, you have to know how Chandigarh came to be ... In 1947, India became independent from British

TRAVELS WITH MOM - Table of Contents Email sent from Chandigarh, India on March 25, 1999: Before leaving Dharamsala yesterday afternoon, we went back to the Chocolate Log for a final carrot cake and we met a woman from Michigan who has spent several weeks in Dharamsala attending classes at

TRAVELS WITH MOM - Table of Contents Email sent from Dharamsala, India on March 23, 1999: We've taken some long walks around the area outside McLeod Ganj (the ridge above Dharamsala where we're staying), and it's been a nice break. The weather is very

TRAVELS WITH MOM - Table of Contents Email sent from Dharamsala, India on March 22, 1999: Our final day in Amritsar was pretty non-eventful -- we did a little souvenir shopping, went to a park and talked to some local people (all Sikhs, of course), and then went back to

TRAVELS WITH MOM - Table of Contents A fax sent from Amritsar, India on March 21, 1999: E-mail has proven difficult to find here in Amritsar, so here's an update via fax ... Our last day in Agra (Thursday), we had a very traditional Indian breakfast at the jewelry

TRAVELS WITH MOM - Table of Contents Email sent from Agra, India on March 17, 1999: Here's the latest since the update I sent from Agra yesterday morning. After this, it will be at least a couple of days until we can check e-mail, maybe longer (we don&

TRAVELS WITH MOM - Table of Contents Email sent from Agra, India on March 15, 1999: I'm typing this from a PC in the back of a spice shop in Agra, where the owner has a PPP connection to an internet node in Agra. I just spent 30

TRAVELS WITH MOM - Table of Contents Our first email from India, sent from Varanasi on March 14, 1999: Shortly after we last sent e-mail from Katmandu, I discovered that half my traveler's checks - the ones I had stashed in my backpack - were missing. Mom and

TRAVELS WITH MOM - Table of Contents Email sent from Kathmandu, Nepal on March 10, 1999, after returning from a 3-day excursion to Royal Chitwan National Park: Monday morning we went to Pashupatinath, the large Hindu temple in Kathmandu, on the way to the airport. We paid a young guy

TRAVELS WITH MOM - Table of Contents Email sent from Kathmandu, Nepal on March 7, 1999: This is probably the last e-mail for a few days, since we'll be at Royal Chitwan National Park on Monday through Wednesday. From what I know of that place, we won'

TRAVELS WITH MOM - Table of Contents Our first email from Nepal, sent from Kathmandu son March 5, 1999: We're in Kathmandu, checked in to Kathmandu Guest House. Mom is asleep, and I've been enjoying 22-oz Kingfisher beers at the bar for merely 90 rupees ($1.

TRAVELS WITH MOM - Table of Contents Our first email of the trip, sent from Siem Reap, Cambodia on March 4, 1999: Today we're walking around the markets in Siem Reap, Cambodia. We told our guide David (who has been absolutely wonderful) that we wanted to spend a

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