Friday, December 6, 2019

Goa...and cuma...you'll see what I mean.

OK...so they do things differently in India, this isn't big news....but this?...
I've never seen an exhibition of that before.  Maybe my buddy Dave "The Dufuss" O'Neil aka "Drunk Dave" encouraging me to drink Ol'Pervert rum with him made me see things I wouldn't usually see...

I think that last one is a photo of my buddy "Dastardly Dave" when he was young, and in the home for the criminally insane.  He apparently killed a guard and stole his criminally insane sunglasses!  Anyway, here we are in Goa...yes, you could say we cuma to Goa, but I won't.  We are in Uncle Alfonso's Guest House...nice place...good WIFI!

Did I mention that it is a little toasty here...32C...for the Americans among you...HOT!  When I can get my buddy Dave "The Drunkard" O'Neil out of the bar, we climb step-like mountains
...well, my buddy Dave "triple bypass" O'Neil doesn't so much climb as get a tuktuk to get him to the top!  We saw this stuff when my buddy Dave "The Dolt" O'Neil finally got it up...to the top...





...kind of looks Caribbean to me...and I know everything!  Anyway, we walked around a bit, and my buddy "Disco" Dave O'Neil found the lost disco of Goa...
...and got down for the camera!

Anne turns out to be a bit of a Richard Avedon (famous photographer) of lecherous grandma's...
...getting this rather good photo of TLD...is there a bad one?
Tomorrow we go somewhere else...they keep that kind of shit from me!

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

India..........things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm........

I bow down to Dora.  My first trip to India with Dora was perfect...idyllic, magical even.  This trip I got to see some of the ugly side of India...the Hawkers grabbing at you all the time, the young children being used to beg, the "I'll get you before you get me" attitude, the ever widening gap between have, and have not.  Yes, the Taj...
...and the Taj not...
...and then I had the best cup of chai EVER from this guy...
...he crouches for 12 hours at a time selling  little convenience items on the street!  Wow, that man is tough!  His little stall was next to these beautiful people...no Hawkers, just people doing their jobs respectfully...




Because we were in Agra, we also went to the backside of the Taj...across the river...
The Taj Mahal is really amazing...ya, ya, ya, I know.  But really folks...



...and down from the Taj is a Big Red Fort.  This was more like a fort/palace!






My buddy Dave "Fred Astaire" O'Neil took to dancing he was so happy...
...and this is Dave "The Guru" O'Neil when he let's his hair down!!  
They have a VERY FORMAL dress code for kids in India...
Socks HAVE  to match the toque...have to!!!  TLD, as I have told you before, has a long history in India...here is the statue of my great uncle Sudoku the Magnificent in front of the Lone DeRanger India/Delhi headquarters...
...see the resemblance...
And finally, the beautiful Anne, former Miss Universe, and currently chained to my buddy Dave "The Dumbass" O'Neil...poor thing.
We are off to Goa tomorrow...beach time!