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Happy New Year! Welcome back to my new monthly series on Nomadderwhere, one which highlights the incredible trips one could take in that current month – thanks to a vibrant book called Journeys of a Lifetime by National Geographic.
Each month I pick a couple adventures from each section in the book in order to provide [...]

From Darjeeling to Kolkata, Diwali erupted in my wake.
Descending the staircase of Hotel New Vaisali, my working boys were in the process of hanging strands of orange and yellow flowers over the entrance to the lobby, taking as much care in the presentation as they would placing a fallen baby bird back in its [...]

To seek out mental exhaustion
To be stranded with nothing but my mind
To be shoved completely out of my bubble and to let the one that covers me burst into tears on occasion
To see things I read about
To have a more enlightened mind and know, from experience, things never to be forgotten
To prove I can return [...]

BANG! POW! CRACK!
These are not the captions of a Marvel comic but the sounds that reverberated off the walls in my all-marble hotel. They were unexpected, oddly timed during the day, and seemingly arbitrary in the grand scheme of normal life in Darjeeling, India. I had no idea why the boys [...]

Alice Villa and her crew kicked me out with a smile and a tear. My beloved guesthouse was overbooked, and my sorry load needed to relocate for the remainder of my mountain adventure. It was a bittersweet parting with an establishment that saved me from extreme bowel distress, gave me food and impeccable shelter, and [...]

COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE
Smile and decline.
COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE CHAAAAAAAI
I wasn’t tired. Yes, I woke up at 3:30am and ran through the echoing city of Darjeeling in the bare cold of her film noir-esque pre-dawn. Yes, I jumped in a stranger’s jeep, gave him two dollars, and squashed against four [...]

I wrote these thoughts while on the “road”…
“A nervous dog pacing for a good, sunny, uncrowded spot to bathe and relax
A little boy snorting and scaring girls (including me) to impress his buddy between swings on the monkey bars
Old women with elephant wrinkles thumbing 109 prayer beads”

This “road” could have be anywhere. And then…
“School [...]