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An Indian Wedding – Need I Say More?

Celebrating Diwali In India With Food, Fireworks, And Family

A Day With My Hero – Mahatma Gandhi

My 500th Post On My 500th Day As A Happy & Homeless Nomad

Hey Mom, Surprise, I’m Home For Christmas!

Buddha’s Beautiful Birthplace

Visiting Kids With Cancer In The Hospital

Meditating With Pythons – This Time I Was Scared!

An Amazing Week At A Rural Thai Buddhist Temple

A Magical Week In The Laotian Countryside – Ending With A Village Ceremony And Tears

Are Cambodians The Happiest People On Earth?

30 Things I’ve Learned About Life As I Turn 30

The Best Of Latin America – Best Photographs

A Weekend With The Tsachilas – Indigenous, Spiritual, And Fellow Nomads

An amazing weekend with the Tsachila indigenous people of Santo Domingo, Ecuador

Together, Let’s Help Kids With Cancer!

Help me raise money for kids with cancer while I grow out a future wig to help a child with cancer live a more normal life.

Celebrating The New Year In Venezuela – Impromptu Trip To The Most Beautiful Beach I’ve Ever Seen

The pictures speak for themselves, and yet could never really show how beautiful this place was!

Building A Website & Installing A Solar Panel System – An Awesome Volunteering Experience In Honduras!

One of the best and most rewarding volunteering experiences yet!

l’m Different..And Dangerous

April 10, 2013

Two recent headaches inspired me to write this post. Since I’ve chosen to live a very different kind of life, one that doesn’t make sense to many people, there are some undesirable side-effects. Flying Home When I flew home from Bombay to surprise my mom for Christmas I underwent the craziest security check I’ve ever [...]

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A Tour Of India’s Most Infamous Slum

April 8, 2013

What kind of mental images come to mind when you hear the word slum? I presume nothing good comes to mind. And this slum in particular, Dharavi of Slumdog Millionaire fame, might conjure images of nasty men coercing children into begging. But, as you can imagine, the story is more complicated than that. Dharavi is [...]

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Monkeying Around At Breakfast Time

April 6, 2013

What to do when monkeys descend on your friend’s house in Ahmedabad, India? Take lots of pictures.. Enjoy!

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Photo Friday – A Journey To The Center Of The Earth, Or A Tandoor Cooking Roti – Delhi, India

April 5, 2013

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What Is Beauty?

April 3, 2013

As I travel I get to see far off places that stick to local customs that may be thousands of years old. Other places are more “modern” and globalized, adopting more Western customs in their lives. Either way, the concept of beauty is by far one of the most obvious differences I find as I [...]

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A Story Answering Why I Travel

April 1, 2013

I awoke at 6am in Ahmedabad, a normal time to wake up in previous versions of my life but not here in India. In India everything seems to start later, and even then everyone shows up late anyway. I headed to the park five minutes from my friend’s place in the pitch black darkness. Tushar [...]

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Sabarmati Ashram – Gandhi’s Ashram In Ahmedabad, India

March 30, 2013

While visiting my friend in Ahmedabad, I visited the Gandhi Ashram, also known as Sabarmati Ashram. Gandhi lived here for 12 years. It was from here that he undertook the salt march, a 241-mile, 24 day march to the sea to protest the British tax on Indian salt. Gandhi and his followers were beaten mercilessly [...]

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Photo Friday – Colorful, Wonderful Holi – Delhi, India

March 29, 2013

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I Quit

March 27, 2013

No, I haven’t quit being a Happy Nomad, nor writing for this site. It’s a bit of a play on words since the verb “to quit” is the same in present and past tense. In this case, I refer to the past. When I went home to surprise my mom for Christmas I opened a [...]

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