On the Road

During the past week I've been traveling quite a bit and haven't been doing a good job of keeping you all in the loop on what I'm up to. I had the chance to tour around Madurai and visited the massive temple there. It's very old but they keep up the paint job so that it still looks new. I didn't get to go inside because I was wearing shorts that day but it looked like their wasn't much to see besides a bunch of souvenir shops. I guess it's recently become more of a money trap than a temple. Still cool to see. Last Friday I rode the midnight train from Dindigul to Chennai. First time on a train and it was pretty uneventful. Tried to sleep most of the way but figured out that alot of Indian people snore, women and children included. In Chennai I took an autoricshaw tour of the city which was pretty cool. It's a very old and very beautiful city and even though my driver couldn't tell me what everything was, I still had a good time. I also tried my hand at working in India's booming IT field with Ahmudha, Joe's wife, at their IT business, Valley Creek Software. I'm pretty computer illiterate and wasn't much help. After coming back to Dindigul early Tuesday morning I went with Franklin to the neighboring state of Kerala. This is a beautiful mountainous region famous for spice and tea growing. We toured a tea plant and got some free tea, a whole kg, I think. Also tried to visit an elephant reserve but they were closed when we got there. Hopefully I can see some before I leave. Well, that about brings you up to date. I'll be leaving for Delhi on Sunday so hopefully I'll have some interesting stuff to talk about when I get back. Also, new pics are up.