Comments on: Before and After Poopada – Leaving India http://davethegrinch.net/2007/04/20/before-and-after-poopada-leaving-india/ Strange mutterings from stranger people Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:34:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Cynthea (from Seattle, now in Kyoto, no John) http://davethegrinch.net/2007/04/20/before-and-after-poopada-leaving-india/comment-page-1/#comment-442 Cynthea (from Seattle, now in Kyoto, no John) Mon, 23 Apr 2007 04:00:50 +0000 http://davethegrinch.net/2007/04/20/before-and-after-poopada-leaving-india/#comment-442 I remember talking with you about India when you were in Seattle. Nothing works smoothly, it overwhelms, it maddens. Then you meet someone or do one thing that makes it all worth it. Yet, even then, money is often at the base of all relationships. It's just the nature of things. Yep, I crave "India" like sleep when I leave it, but when I'm there it takes all the goodwill and patience I have to understand it and view it generously. I hope you will go back, and give it months and months. On the other hand, I find it amazing that the Indian train system works at all, and it usually works well? Didn't it? Ferries, buses, all poor because they want to keep it as cheap as possible and -- because they can. I took a hard seater bus from N. India to Kathmandu once. Ouch! Spinters on hairpin turns, too. I hope you enjoy village life in Nepal. Sorry you missed Myanmar, too.... Cynthea of Seattle still in Kyoto I remember talking with you about India when you were in Seattle. Nothing works smoothly, it overwhelms, it maddens. Then you meet someone or do one thing that makes it all worth it. Yet, even then, money is often at the base of all relationships. It’s just the nature of things.

Yep, I crave “India” like sleep when I leave it, but when I’m there it takes all the goodwill and patience I have to understand it and view it generously.
I hope you will go back, and give it months and months.
On the other hand, I find it amazing that the Indian train system works at all, and it usually works well? Didn’t it?
Ferries, buses, all poor because they want to keep it as cheap as possible and — because they can. I took a hard seater bus from N. India to Kathmandu once. Ouch! Spinters on hairpin turns, too.
I hope you enjoy village life in Nepal.
Sorry you missed Myanmar, too….
Cynthea of Seattle still in Kyoto

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