Travel Tuesday

Last year, I took the most memorable trip to India and failed to document my memories. I have been terrible about this in my travels in general, I think because I feel like I need to write something thoughtful and thought provoking. Sometimes, there's not time for that. Sometimes I can't find the words. And sometimes, pictures are just enough.

So on Tuesdays (mind you, not necessarily every Tuesday), I'll be posting photos from some trip I took at some time, and those pictures may or may not be accompanied by captions.

These are from Agra, February 2015.

Sleepless in Seattle

This might be the rain talking, but this is what I have to say about Seattle so far:

• Seattle homeless are definitely scarier than New York homeless. This is because around here, everyone kind of dresses like their homeless, so you don't realize that they're really homeless until they are one foot away from you speaking tongues and/or screaming obscenities.
• Driving isn't terrible in the city; public transportation isn't terrible in the city. Neither are great. 
• If you're in Seattle proper, it is walkable in theory. Then your socks get wet.
• Seattle restaurant industry has got nothin' on New York's. You can't get away with bad service there. You never know who you're serving or who they know. You just wouldn't last.
• Umbrellas and rain boots are dead give aways that you're not from here. If I ever start to dress like I'm from here, take my homeless looking clothes away from me and burn them.
• Construction is rampant. Cranes are so much a part of the landscape and decorated with holiday lights.
• They say the PNW has the best summers. I'll re-evaluate my opinion then.

Be Humble. Don't Grumble.

Whenever I start buggin' over my first world "problems", I think about days like this:

...And I'm back again.

Loving & Leaving

 Just one more full day before I head out, and my dear cousin, Jane shared this with me:

“You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again.”

― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran

Definitely on my gotta-read-next list.