We're Back

We’re back from three weeks in India.  Our bodies have finally adjusted for the second time to a 10½ hour jetlag.  Yes, India does not divide its large country into time zones.  Everyone there has the same time on his watch (if he has a watch), and India is the only country that is on the half-hour when the world is on the hour.

The country is changing.  It is not the same country we visited four years ago, but I am not the same person I was four years ago either.  This time my body was more cooperative.  Naproxen doesn’t mute RA pain as well as a biological with a prednisone kicker does.  I did have some problems with fatigue and the heat, but they were minor by comparison.

It took me a day just to do five loads of the dusty laundry we’d stuffed into our suitcases for the return trip.  Now there is the task of processing thousands of photos.  We need to cull out the losers and batch-rename the animals or whatever for the winners.  We need to keyword all the photos so we’ll be able to isolate all of the tigers from two India trips and from any zoos we’ve visited.  Then there are the lions.  Asian lions are different compared to the African lion we’ve photographed.  A great compare-and-contrast exercise awaits us.  And so on.

I’m going to insert India posts as I finish writing them and processing the pictures.  We are going on two more photo-shoots soon, one in the middle of May and the second at the end of May through the beginning of June.  Both are one-week ones with one-week between to wash the clothes.  After that we’ll have the rest of the year to process those photos and finish the India posts.

Namaste  (nah-muh-stay´, Hindi for “have a good day.”)