The Rice and Lentil Tourist

In 2015 I'm headed to Italy, so follow my exploits here .

Maybe I can understand leaving biodegradables to blow and rot. I've seen enough dogs and cows and goats rooting around in the piles to k...

And always.. The trash… the garbage. (Warning: Links are to youtube.) Everywhere you look, unless you've turned off a public stre...

As we get closer to Pondy the sides of the roads begin to be filled with higher concentrations of people and dwellings. Sometimes I catc...

The drive reminded me somewhat of my childhood in the US South of the 1960's, where the heat and humidity were visible in the air, and t...

We sped past Christian churches -- many Catholic, many Pentecostal -- topped with a cross and done up in Indian-style decorations and colors...

The two-lane ECR road was in sight of the bay for almost the entire drive from Chennai to Pondy -- about 2.5 hours. There were indeed some v...