Time for one last short blog post. after 3 weeks in India and 5 days in Bangkok, it's time to go back to "real" life.

I'm glad I extended my trip to be with my family. Dad is still in the hospital with his reoccuring nightly fever, but he really looks better. I hope hope hope he comes home tomorrow. I'll feel better knowing that he'll be home, and that Mom won't be alone, once I'm gone!

The last week or so has been so completely chill. There has been no agenda except to visit my Dad, and essentially just "live" in Poona. The daily routine has essentially been: breakfast, shopping and/or email, visit Dad, lunch, kickin' around town/reading/drinking iced coffee, visit Dad again, dinner, kick around town/drink iced coffee or get a beer/upload photos/do email, then home to bed. Oh, and a liberal sprinkling of watching BBC news when I'm actually home.

I haven't spent this much time with family in years. This trip is going to have to happen more often -- every 2 years at the minimum. Not a bad deal, really: do the holidays in Goa, then spend family time in the cities, with maybe one "adventure" trip in the mix? Yeah, I could totally get used to this.

Stll uploading photos every day. More are coming all the time.

Home Saturday evening, barring any travel mishaps. I'm sure I'll be in the Mission that night, staying awake in order to thwart an extended jet lag.