Mumbai, India - January 9-10, 2018 Reading about India a few months ago, we were forewarned that we were about to embark on a place that registers with all senses. What an understatement! The smells! The close contact with many, many other human beings, the dogs lying in the streets and plazas, the sounds - people talking loudly and car and motorbike horns sounding almost constantly, some beeping incessantly; some sounding long, impatient blasts for many ...

Goa, India - January 8, 2018 First, as a note, Internet is available only when we are in a port. And when I find it, the service is inevitably slow. I must upload photos only one at a time. Very tedious and frustrating! Further, we will be sailing for the next few days with no opportunity to update blogs or upload pictures at all. I will continue to write and take photos but will upload them as soon as I can! Now for the news . . . We have had three g...