October 13th, 2004, 7:37pm
Well, it's been an awfuly long time since my last pitiful update, and this one's not going to be too much better for detail.
Things are wrapping up here on the homestead, I expect to be leaving here bound for Vancouver around the first week of November. I then plan to have a plane ticket for India, and will likely leave for Delhi around the 23rd of November. We'll see how things go from there. I will be aiming to spend 11+ months in India assuming I can handle it mentally, physically, and financially. I expect that most of that time will be spent in the Punjab, though I've got a friend who's living in Nagpur right now so I'll certainly have to stop in there, and my plans will be quite flexible besides.
As for the time down here... well, we haven't built a house yet, or even begun building the house proper. We have done a lot of related work though, and made decent progress. It's been hard for me to readjust from my expectations of what I was going to be doing down here, to the reality. A good lesson in having a rigid mind. I've decided it would have been better, and will be better in the future - say travling in India, if I can be more flexible... less stuck on my own short-sighted ideas of how it's going to be, or what's going to happen. I'll just have to watch for myself being like that.
Ok, well, it looks like my time here is up, so I'm going to close this update now. I will... 'try' to update a little more often than once a month!
ps. You may notice that one of my prior updates now has several words that are underlined links... click on them for some pictures if you like. I have more, but... we'll see how soon I get them linked in.
