Greetings Folks!
We landed safely in Mumbai a couple of days ago after a 1.5-day trip East which landed Mike and me in Mumbai, the most heavily-populated city in the most heavily-populated country in the world. You can well imagine that there are people e v e r y w h e r e !
Day 1 was a settling day. Day 2, yesterday, was a sussing day where I just hoofed around downtown looking for a hotel to stay in when the 3AC Crew returns to Mumbai in about a month. Today was a more "Proper Adventure" in that we took our time having breakfast and getting ready in the morning and left the hotel with just a slight game plan.
On the train ride south, I let Mike in on the fact that I had not done any research on the bazaars that we were visiting today, their exact locations or names, but wanted to see how the day unfolded. Highlights included purchasing neon orange Hanuman Monkey God dashboard ornaments, and then wandering into "that building over there", which turned out to be a vegetarian's dream: a slaughterhouse for chicken and a place where they dry fish out! Mmmmm, mmmm, mm! Did I mention it was complete with rats scampering about on the ground? We actually were only in there for about 10 minutes, and the people were very friendly.
Across the street were treasures of lamps, antique door handles and pencil boxes, karma sutra decks of cards, your various Hindu schwag, your random goat, motor pieces, restored furniture...a general hodge podge of Indian antiques. It was like walking into a thrift shop from the 50's = F U N !
Off to get some good sleep tonight as tomorrow we're off to my second-homeland of Kerala. I simply cannot wait!
Lots of love, warmth (the humid variety), and love from Mumbai!
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Have fun, love! I'll be living vicariously through you! xoxo
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