The saying goes that "if you can drive in India, then you can drive anywhere." I whole-heartedly agree…that is after giving myself an electric shock to restart my heart after taking a ride in an Indian rickshaw! The rally driving that goes on here is incredible, and I am always impressed with the darts of faith among the drivers who skim disaster not by inches but by millimeters. So, I decided to blend a couple of my rides in rickshaws to give an idea...

India, two words: "sensory overload." From setting foot outside the airport to having been here a few days, it never ceases to shock me in one way or another. The strange part is that I had mentally prepared myself for this onslaught of mesmerizing and gut-wrenching sights, putrid and beautiful smells, and a myriad of changing sounds and tastes. However, the power and constancy by which each one hits you simultaneously with all the others is quite overp...

After spending a short week in the States I returned to Zanzibar for a couple days of diving to test out my equilibrium problems in my ears before committing to some intense diving in the Maldives, an archipelago nation located in the Indian Ocean south of India. Not having any problems, we decided to go on. Diving in the Maldives has been a dream of mine since a man told me about it when I was visiting St. Lucia a few years ago. He claimed that it was the bes...

Over the past two weeks I have covered nearly as much ground as my entire trip thus far. After getting my visa to India, I had a couple of extra weeks to either spend diving on the island of Zanzibar while Ian got his dive certification or I could take the opportunity to fly back to the States for a week replacing some of my things and visiting a few friends and family.. I took the second option and jumped on a twenty-one hour flight back to Atlanta, Georgia; ...

Leaving our overland group was hard for both Ian and I because we had become such good friends with many of them. However, we had to move on to our next adventure, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. This mountain stands at 19,340 feet and is the tallest mountain in Africa and the tallest free-standing mountain in the world. There are several routes by which we could have ascended to the summit, but four of our Australian friends that we had met on the overland truck...