Adventure?

"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."
- Lao Tzu (Philosopher)

This blog is appropriately titled, but I admit that sometimes I become tired of the adventure! We left on Wednesday (May 23rd) for Jodhpur and were planning to return the following Wednesday (May 30th). The first five days were spent with work, Aaron went out to the villages and did some research. Two days were spent relaxing in a beautiful palace for our anniversary and then we were supposed to go home. We arrived at the train station on Wednesday (May 30th) at 9 AM to catch our train but we were told that due to rioting between Jodhpur and our home city, the train was running late and would not arrive until 1:00PM. We checked back later and the train wasn't coming until sometime in the evening and then the train was canceled. We checked into a fairly nice hotel that we had stayed in before and arranged for a car and driver to pick us up Thursday morning and drive us home. We got in the car on Thursday morning and made it to a city about two and a half hours from our home but were stopped by police and men with guns and sticks and told that we couldn't go any further. The road we were traveling was too dangerous and people were torching cars and trucks that tried to pass. So we found a hotel and settled in for the rest of the day and night. The hotel we stayed in was an adventure in itself, but we'll talk about that in another post. The next morning we heard that the road was opened and so we arranged for another car and driver to take us home. The train tracks had been ripped up and no buses were running to our city, so this was our only chance to make it home. Thankfully, we finally made it home Friday afternoon. There is still a lot of unrest in our city and I don't think we've seen the last of this rioting, but at least we're home!

We'll be posting about our trip for the next few days so be sure to check back soon.