So begins the trek back home. Time to pack up our belongings, make one final visit into Auroville, travel in the Tempo for the last long ride in video game engineered like traffic, and step into the airport and embrace the lessons we have learned. Reflecting on how much we have experienced in just two weeks is joyfully exhausting: - meeting sponsored students - meeting the new bishop of the ALC church - visiting multiple schools spread throughout Tamil Na...

Traveling with LPGM brings many benefits. One of the most fulfilling is delivering packages from sponsors in the US to their students in India. The children ask about their sponsors and often want to know more about them. This genuine interest in another "stranger" is incredibly heartwarming. If you are a sponsor yourself and come on a trip, it can usually be arranged for you to meet your sponsored student and possibly visit their home and family. Hearing th...

Auroville is essentially an idealized dream. The easiest way to describe it is if Gene Rodenberry could have designed a society in a world with Stanely Kubrick imagery you would get Auroville. Their charter simple states: - Auroville belongs to nobody in particular. - Auroville belongs to humanity as a whole. - But to live in Auroville, one must be a willing servitor of the Divine Consciousness. - Auroville will be the place of an unending education, of co...

India is a nation of extremes, and our current living space is certainly allowing us to briefly touch another. For most of our trip we have been staying in areas in which every sense is engaged, From the sound of horns in the dance of traffic on the roads, to the myriad of colorful clothes and painted temples, to the combination of smells that seem to alter with every breeze, India is an experience that comes at you from all fronts. Our current lodging (Tem...