Drew Gilbert

We have reached the half way point of our little jaunt around India, and with two days in Darjeeling, everyone is meant to rest up and recharge their batteries. Whether or not that worked out as planned, you would have to ask the others, but from my point of view, everyone seems to have lost [...]

Writing this on the Rajdhani Express again, this time on my way out of Assam, headed towards Darjeeling where we will spend two nights. Let’s get the “I hate Assam” part taken care of first, as it’s shorter. Haven’t heard from me in awhile? Blame Assam. Their policy, for whatever reason I have not learned [...]

Writing this on the New Delhi – Dibrugarh Rajdhani, or The Rajdhani Express- my favorite train of the trip so far. As soon as the train pulled out of the station, we were immediately given lunch. Just given, not sold. Veg or non-veg? Then again after the meal was over, veg or non-veg? Wait… What? [...]

Writing this on the New Delhi – Dibrugarh Rajdhani, a nearly 40 hour train ride that should take us nearly to Myanmar/Burma. Gear check: I decided my three shirts were getting too funky, and had decided to ditch two of them and pick up two new ones. Troy convinced me to hold onto the old [...]

Writing this on the Uttar Sampark Kranti. UHP – New Delhi. Yeah, that’s a mouthful. Every day is an event, I just never know which act is up next. The Morning After (being horribly ill) I woke up in Jammu Tawi, operating at about 80% power after the previous day’s gastro-flu powered illness. The fever [...]

Before we left on this trip, Troy and I were having a conversation that I am sure, if I could remember the subject now, would probably be embarrassing. The one notable exchange came when Troy busted out the line: “Just another statistic, man. Just another statistic.” Then it occurred to me: “I’m still a statistic, [...]

Drew is, um, unavailable for today’s post, so he’s left it to his wife (Christine) to finish his update for him. I’m sure he would be more delicate with the language, but here’s the limited information I have from Drew: From Facebook: “What has two thumbs and feels violently ill? *This gCOUGHuuuuyyy* More as this [...]

Writing this on the Ahmedabad Jammu Express, and lots of other places. This writing presages me getting super sick that following night. Is it possible to be both charmed and bored? That’s where I find myself on this day. I mistakenly thought that our first train, a 19 hour ride up to Dwarka, was our [...]

I expected this day was meant to be a train day, defined by the group getting it’s bearings during a 19 hour train ride. It was this, but it turned into much more once we left the confines of our AC2 sleeper The day felt a bit like summer camp, some people in the group [...]

Writing this while riding the Saurashtra Mail, our first and longest train ride of the trip. We departed mumbai at 8:25pm Friday and will arrive at Dwarka at 4:00pm Saturday. Before we talk Mumbai, let’s do a gear check: The man-purse is holding up, though I have found that zippers in India seem to be [...]