Final thoughts on India

Describing India in a few succinct phrases is beyond my capacity as a writer, so I'm not going to try. After five months of travel I can say that my salient memories of India are the everyday interactions we had with people along the road. The moments of genuine curiousity and kindenss from strangers, when it didn't feel like somebody was trying to squeeze something out of me. Palaces, museums, forts; all of it was amazing, but it was the conversations over a fresh coconut milk along the side of the road, in the midst of the midday heat and the traffic that I will remember.