derrrr....

feeling a little out of it as i haven't slept well the past couple of nights, followed by a 5 hour bumpy bus ride wherein my head got rattled about considerably. it's looking like a 9pm bedtime tonight if i can make it that long...

so we spent 5 days in pushkar, which was a most excellent time! beaucoup shopping - our load is considerably heavier, but pushkar has some durn good shopping! i got a bunch of rings at $2 a pop, real silver too!

we are now in a little town called bundi, which is in the lonely planet as 'rarely visited by tourists'. that was 3 years ago and now there are a handful of tourists all looking to not be around other tourists - the irony of it all. this is a great spot though; tomorrow i have a 5am yoga date with the girl at our guest house and matt and i will get bikes to check out the area.

we have a date set up with the general in delhi to deliver The Dictionary next week, which promises to make for an interesting evening.

joanne, to answer your question about communicating with people - people in cities and educated people do speak english. india has between 15 - 56 languages and hundreds if not thousands of dialects. i'm becoming an expert at tailoring my words and gestures to make myself understood. for example, instead of asking, 'how long does it take to get there?' you say 'how many minutes walking? 5 minutes walking? 10 minutes walking?' also, when asking directions, they consistently confuse right and left, and straight for that matter! tonight i was looking for cotton balls, which i asked for 3 times. then i asked for 'koh-tone' and he produced some cotton!

that's all the news that's fit to print from my fuzzy head...namaste bloggers!