And then, just like that, she is gone

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We dropped Courtney off at the Delhi airport on Sunday and took the night train to Varanasi. Alas. She arrived with wine, chocolate, tampons, and literature for us, and she's leaving with our discarded clothing, a fabulous monkey carved from a coconut, and hopefully no serious intestinal illness. She's promised us that she'll do a "guest blog" post back in America as soon as she kicks the jet-lag, so stay tuned for that. Meanwhile, Meg and I are cranking on a longer email where we'll try to sum up our 3 months in India before we get on a plane from Calcutta to Kathmandu on Sunday.

But to tide you over till then, we've put up two new sets of pictures - "On the road again..." and "Courtney Does India". They've even got captions and stories to check out when you view them in slideshow format. So, feast on photos for now, and we'll have a long email for you before the weekend comes. And, if you're not on our email list (i.e. you haven't gotten any emails with a [quixote] heading), email me at rahul@stanfordalumni.org and we'll hook you up.

Finally, the countdown begins: 10 days till the Nepali MS 150! We're getting our grundels ready! Wooohooo!!

peace,
rahul