You're on summer vacation I take it, perhaps in Canada for your brother's  wedding.

I've been in India about a week now.  I don't understand the attraction. It's hot, noisy, dusty; flies are everywhere, and the people are not that cool.  Really nosey and intrusive.  And they stare much more than Koreans do.

This PC bang dude does nothing but pace and look at what people are doing.  And if there's a free computer (there are only 3) he looks at porn.  If he touches my keyboard one more time, I'm going to smack him.

That said, I can add smoking cigarettes to my list of vices that I no longer do.  I don't really miss it.  Perhaps its all the diarrhea.

50 days sober!  Where's my chip!!!

Tomorrow morning I plan to go to a place called Gangotri, which is the glacier where the Ganges river starts.
It's almost 4 thousand meters up so it'll be cool (not 40 degrees) and hopefully quieter than it's been everywhere else I've been.

I don't know when my aversion to noise (cars honking excessively, etc) began, but it's pretty intense.  My aversion that is.

 My return flight to Korea is Aug 16.   Beyond that I know not.  Seems like a long way from now, but it's really not.

They say it's 40 degrees here in Rishikesh.  I think it might be.  As for the "ashram" stay I was considering, it all seems very cult-like and creepy.  Lots of these dudes dressed all in orange walking in groups.  Orange tee shirt, orange shorts and sandals.  And with their Freddy Mercury moustaches, they look like some gay cult.

Rishikesh, like Haridwar, is a pilgrimage town where people come from all over to bathe in the Ganges.  It's much cleaner up here; that is, the river is much cleaner in Rishikesh than it is down in Varanasi where they throw dead bodies.  Also, R & H are both vegetarian communities.  You'll see pigs and cows in the street, but you won't see any on a menu or on a plate or in a market.

India's a funky place. I always hear from people how "amazing" it is. I just don't see it.  I guess a lot of people come here for some "spiritual" purpose.  I don't get that either.  Every white person I've seen in the last week (all two of them) have looked like they were on their way to a Grateful Dead show.  Stinking hippies.

God is everywhere.    All's you gotta do is believe.  God will find you.  Peace.