i’m back … i was in the jungle for four days, and before that i guess i just had nothing to write about. that’s partly due to the fact that nothing super-new has been happening, but mostly i’ve been busy showing mom and earl around.

ok, so the trip our trip out of town was amazing. both places, while wet, had that remote serene feeling that i often feel i’m missing in mysore and bangkok. i’ve written here before about how i can get stuck in the city. it used to happen to me living in san francisco too, sometimes six months would go by and i’d realize that i hadn’t left the seven square miles of san francisco. the same thing happens to me in bangkok, i get into my routine and often months pass without me getting away from the concrete and into the greenery.

this trip really just plunged me into greenery again. there was no internet access, my cell phone didn’t work, there was no television and besides looking at animals and trees, there wasn’t much to do. on thursday, we left mysore in the morning and drove two hours to the kabini river lodge (still in karnataka state) and checked into an amazing cabin on the river. the rooms were huge and had plenty of space for us to practice yoga on friday morning. the first night we went out on a jeep sarafi, and managed to see peacocks, gaur, wild elephant, spotted deer, sambar deer, wild boar and probably some others that i’m forgetting.

we went to bed around 20:00 (as usual) and got up at 3:30 to practice yoga before going out on the 6:00 boat safari. the boat ride lasted about two hours, and this time we mostly saw birds. loads and loads of different birds. there was this dutch couple on the boat who seemed to know the name of every type, and would literally jump up at each sighting and let us know loads of details.

the weather up to now was a bit cold, but still pretty nice. it would occasionally rain, but generally only for 15 minutes and then stop for a few hours.