Visitor

We have a visitor, Tami Reilly, one of Tara's long time friends from home. It is the first, and probably only, friend visit amongst Tara's life-long friends, so she is very excited. Tami and Tara are spending the night at the Marriott here in Hyd - leading the good life, as it were. Good for them.

Tami has a unique affinity to India. She is a yoga instructor, and has done some innovative blending of vinyasa yoga and spin cycling. She is here to train some people in Delhi at a fitness club, stopping off to see us first.

It is always fun to see India through a newbies eyes. Especially Tami, who has a great knowledge of India and has never been here. Additionally, I sense that perhaps she has a perspective that is based largely on the idealized India, the exotic India that occupies the mind of many in the West. She turned to Tara during her first day, a bit appalled by what she was seeing, and said, "Is that man just going to pee right there on the side of the street?" To which one must laugh, as urination is the most tepid gastric display on the streets of India.

Overall, it has been fun to have a visitor, and the pictures she has been taking will be posted on the blog soon, if she is cool with that.

She is here 'til Thursday.

Welcome Tami! Namaste!