Starting with today's blog are a series of photos of members of the traveling party.  Today's portrait is of Simran's parents, Harvinder and Raminder Nirh, phenomenal hosts and great tour guides.

Of the other three photos, you can distinguish the one of Hank, Simran, and the elephant from the one of the water buffalo as there are three creatures in the former.  I stood on a rope bridge to get the water buffalo shot.  The bridge shook considerably each time someone passed.  Despite the shakiness, I think you can tell we established some sort of rapport.  The brick layer at the Temple was a distance away.  It stretched the zoom capabilities of the itsy camera, but by using the zoom his expression as he watched the stream of visitors remained "unposed."

The day at the spice farm was so much more.  We returned saturated by sights, their colors, and aromas, and, of course, full from a wonderful feast.  This was at the Sher-E-Punjab in Panjim, yet another excellent restauant owned by one of Simran's uncles.  Their web site is under construction, but check back: http://www.sher-e-punjab.com/.

Today we pack and leave Goa for New Delhi (late morning) where it promises to be hotter.

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