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Update 16: Goodbye India, Hello Thailand; Merry Holidays!

11:35 AM
Sunday 24 December 2006
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

I'm about to leave India after ten months here. I thought I'd be here about six months. But each place I visited was as interesting and different as the last. Plus I got lost in the Himalayas for four months in the hot months. The Himalayas are a whole other world. Past European explorers have wandered them for years. I could go back in a second. They are a place you could spend three weeks or three months, fly directly there from anywhere in the world, and be out in the wilderness on a trek within a couple of days.

I fly to Bangkok early Christmas morning from Chennai (formerly Madras). Finally another country. I'm looking forward to it, for a sharp change, and an entry into the center of Southeast Asia.

India has been -- well, India has been amazing. I won't try to sum it up. I hope my website has captured something of the experience. And I hope the site is laid out in a way that you can wander around the website and find something new, just as I have wandered around India and constantly found something new.

Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, and Best Wishes for whatever your beliefs are this holiday season.

Mark

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