Saturday, May 19, 2012

गोआ and Goodbye

After an easy day of hanging around the 'hood in Mumbai, we got on another plane and flew to Goa.  Here's a detail of the Goa airport; it fits with my general experience that "everything is interesting in India".

Anyone know what this mural depicts?  Post a comment!

We took a taxi to Arambol, which was recommended to us by international yoga friends, as a beach area separate from the main party scene.  Our last week in India was spent at a place called "ResidenSea", which was recommended to us from Lonely Planet.  ResidenSea was run by a local family; there were a few dozen huts where folks slept, a restaurant feature and several "hang out" areas.  Actually, here's a video of the whole thing, filmed as usual on my last day:


The other main patrons at ResidenSea were three Russian couples who hung around the restaurant area  in their bathing suits, drank, and smoked hashish all day.  At one point the manager went by fanning around a pan of baked hash.  (Don't ask me how that works...)  Anyway we never talked to them.

There were basically two kinds of people in Arambol:  europeans getting a low-expense "exotic" vacation, and native indians selling them stuff.   Which reminds me, we ran into Sebastian again.  On Wednesday we took a bus to go to a huge marketplace, but it turned out to be more of the same: you could tell from the skin color who was buying and who was selling.  There was an exception:  one day while swimming we met a group of engineering students who were skipping class to have some fun.  I did in fact reprimand them.  Later, when my cohort was making an acroyoga photoshoot, they mimicked the poses in the background.
Sharing Americanized yoga with India
So...we had a great relaxing time.  We did a lot of swimming, I burned through a novelization of the Ramayana, we did yoga with a cool guy named Vijay, we partially celebrated Courtney's half birthday, and we got really silly with British accents, chatting away at the local restaurants.
Why am I dressed up?... I don't have that many outfits.
Jennifer got exuberant handshakes from this dog.

Look at his expression.
Also, more cows.

If you declare that you handled cows, you may be detained and miss your next flight.
We saw some disoriented (Russian?) guy alongside a road with some weird injury.  He couldn't talk to us, but we informed some cops we saw much further down the road.  I tried some Hindi with the taxi drivers and they were amused.

But that's about it, kids.  We flew back to Mumbai, packed up, and reflected on the trip.  We were delighted to run into Kavitha again at a TIFR canteen, and told her our stories.

I bought that shirt in Goa.

A taxi came and they left.  I managed some hugs out of the situation.  Good times; I plan to visit them back in Norman this summer.

Spatillomans Forever!


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Phew!  Well that adventure sure took a long time to write up.  I will try to catch you up quickly with the next few posts.  (Actually I'm going back to the States in a couple days.)

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