Road To Mysore

I left Pushkar yesterday and arrived in Jaipur by noon. This is where it all began and this is where it will end. I fly in a few hours to Bangalore and expect to arrive in Mysore by 6PM. I'm still debating on whether I should get a taxi or a bus to Mysore. After all is said and done I hope to be in Mysore before midnight today. I don't want to do anymore travelling after this. It was great but sometimes you just want to stay put. I'm supposed to go to Coimbatorre next week for a day or two but I don't think that's going to happen.

When I first arrived in Jaipur about 3 weeks ago I stayed at the Jaipur Inn and paid 1,250 rupees. I had budgeted about 1,000 rupees per night on hotels. As I traveled around Rajasthan, I realized that I didn't need 1,000 rupees hotel rooms. If I can sleep in the desert for two days on a dirty mattress and blankets...then why would I need a clean hotel room. As I made my why through the different cities, I settle for the 500 or less rupee rooms. I'm beginning to love these dumpy hotels...sometimes you need to move backward before you can move forward. What was I thinking?

Someone once told me, "if you can find peace in the midst of chaos, then your yoga is working for you." I'm begining to understand what that really means. I think that's what I love about India so much...it can be very chaotic...you either take it our leave.

I have a large glass of lassi yesterday that the Lassiwala on MI Road. I plan on having another one this morning before I head to the airport...lassi to die for!!! Last night I watched a movie at the famous Raj Mandir. It was a good movie but I still prefer them with subtitles.

I'm currently at the Bangkok Airport waiting to board my plane back to LA. I can't believe this is the end of another amazing chapter of my journey. I'm not ready for it to end. My life in LA is boring compared to my life in India/Thailand...Thailand have become my second favorite city and will be flying through Bangkok whenever I head to Mysore.

I left Mysore last Sunday. I hate leaving Mysore. I was having such a blast. I was suppose to leave last Thursday but begged my travel agent to book me in for Sunday instead. I was waited until Thursday morning which meant I still had to pack as if I was leaving on Thursday. I didn't know until 11AM that I was confirmed for Sunday. The extra 3 days helped me calm down a bit and got me ready to leave.

This trip started slow and a bit boring but in the middle, it picked up some steam and in the last 4 weeks went 150 mph. It was crazy busy in a very good way. I really loved Narasima's meditation class and philosophy class. It put a lot of things in perspective. I appreciate more what I'm going through. It gave me the courage to tell my boss in my own words, "to fuck off". Which means I'm currently unemployed. I was a little worried about that in the beginning but I know that life has it's way of working things out by itself. I love Narasima's explanation of "detachment". i wish I wrote it down. i can't explain it but i understand the essence of it. It help me decide to make changes with my life. I wasn't planning on changing jobs this year but I knew that it would have to happen sooner or later. I guess it happened much sooner than I expected.

The next few days is going to be spent getting my LA life back together...finding an apartment, going on interviews, pulling stuff out of storage, renewing my license...and shit, I'm short 2 or 3 hours of CPE and getting ready mentally and physically for work...that's assuming I'll find something. In other words...life is good...it's going to be fun.

I said goodbye to Luke today. I told him I would see him in October, maybe even earlier. I haven't left Bangkok and I've decided to return already.