India - I'm Braving A New World

Our India experience could have been so different if we had had a reliable taxi driver from the airport to the YWCA. Instead we had a taxi driver who took us to the wrong place, made us lose our reservation at the YWCA, and 'helped' us find a passable hotel instead.

Fast forward 24 hours and we are happily visiting with our new Indian friends, Lali and Dinesh Bharat, and have established that Matthew has new Indian grandparents.

What happened in those 24 hours?  We were not happy at the hotel, it was far from any place we wanted to be, and we did not want to spend our time in India staying in a hotel. We checked with Airbnb, found Lali and Dinesh, and made contact. Matthew was especially eager to stay with them as he felt they looked like 'a grandma and a grandpa' and that is exactly what they became.

Thanks to Lali and Dinesh our stay in India was amazing in its lack of complexity. They found a cabbie to take us on a day trip to the Taj Mahal and helped arrange our travel and accomodation in Jaipur. From there with the help of good people at our hotel we made it to Jodhpur (by the way... think about it... guess where the name came from for those interesting pants that are worn by people playing polo? And... wait for it... the game of polo was invented in India and imported by the English. It's all about the learning!) Without Lali and Dinesh's connections and help, our time would have been more stressful.

I will admit that the thought of heading to both Nepal and India had me almost paralyzed with fear... it was the great unknown in every possible way, but as I am learning with every passing day and every situation that we have been in, God is taking care of us and putting great people in our path.