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First of all, THANK YOU to everyone out there who sent me happy birthday wishes!  Today is my birthday and many have asked me how I spent this special day.    So here it is:   I woke up on the lower sleeper bunk of a train heading for Puri.  I left Kolkata the night before having said goodbye to the very experienced traveler friends I’d met in the city.  It was only 5:30 in the morning but everyone was already up and about so I had no choice but ...

The facts contained in this travel blog are based on actual events from the files of Constance and Doug. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.

In 2000 I started to travel around the EurAzian continent. Not in one vacation ofcourse, there is work waiting for me at home, but in leg of 6 weeks. Every journey is about 3000 km long.

Okay, it’s February 24, my sister’s birthday and halfway through our time here in the quite lovely Oceanside city of Puri. My 9 days of diarrhea may be coming to some kind of close so I’ve begun taking a bit of food and water and tea. My sprained ankle (2 days ago) from falling down a step is recovering nicely as is my respiratory hacking etc. Gee, I’m sure I’ll be fine in no time. More important is that my mental and emotion state of mind is world’s improved from the first 2 week...