On the drive home, we saw so many crazy things - weird vehicles, overloaded vehicles, people working in the fields. The working in the fields was bothering me, because it was hot out, it is all totally manual, and all done by WOMEN. And more than once we saw men laying around on beds in the shade drinking something while 
across the road women in sari harvested grain STALK BY STALK! I am not kidding - we saw areas where they had obviously cut the heads that were mature and left others still growing - it looked like thinning hair! I guess when you cut it by hand you can do that. They would make stooks (is that how you spell that??) and in other fields we would see crews (of women again) gathering the stooks and once in a great while we 
saw a tractor. But never with equipment, only to haul a load.
Look! Palm trees!
I think seeing the guys that ride on top of the buses is one of my favorite things. So safe, eh?
This photo answers the question of what is in those puffy loads, and we are surprised the bursting at the seams thing doesn't happen more often. I don't think it is grain, tho, it must be chaff or it would be way too heavy.
Randy and I kind of like a road trip, because there is just so much wacky stuff to see out the windows! However, the roads are so narrow and windy, and are so full of bumps and potholes, and the driving is so bad (speed up, slam on the brakes to go over a sppedbump in the middle of nowhere, floor
it, come up behind a tractor and slam on the brakes again, swerve around some rocks, honk the whole time, speed up again, drive fast thru a little village where small children walk in the road, swerve around a cow or a camel, repeat 35 times each hour) that being in the car is not that fun. And Isaac seems to have some motion 
sickness issues. So he barfed the whole drive home. Lots of fun for everyone! Luckily, not our car :)
Apparently this method of travel is very common in Rajasthan (the state we were in) and you hear often of accidents where a jeep-thing goes over a cliff with 25 people killed. The roads are narrow, there are many hilly areas, and it is a recipe for disaster.
More massive flocks of sheep and goats.
The auto rickshaws we saw in Rajasthan were way more fancy than what we see in Delhi - all chromed out, with fancy colours and designs.
This photo answers the question of what is in those puffy loads, and we are surprised the bursting at the seams thing doesn't happen more often. I don't think it is grain, tho, it must be chaff or it would be way too heavy.
Randy and I kind of like a road trip, because there is just so much wacky stuff to see out the windows! However, the roads are so narrow and windy, and are so full of bumps and potholes, and the driving is so bad (speed up, slam on the brakes to go over a sppedbump in the middle of nowhere, floor
it, come up behind a tractor and slam on the brakes again, swerve around some rocks, honk the whole time, speed up again, drive fast thru a little village where small children walk in the road, swerve around a cow or a camel, repeat 35 times each hour) that being in the car is not that fun. And Isaac seems to have some motion 
sickness issues. So he barfed the whole drive home. Lots of fun for everyone! Luckily, not our car :)
Apparently this method of travel is very common in Rajasthan (the state we were in) and you hear often of accidents where a jeep-thing goes over a cliff with 25 people killed. The roads are narrow, there are many hilly areas, and it is a recipe for disaster.
More massive flocks of sheep and goats.
What kind of crazy vehicle is THIS?
This
guy is going to a wedding - probably not his own, since he is not all decked out. But someone has to deliver the horse! It is traditional for the groom to arrive on a white horse.
This
guy is going to a wedding - probably not his own, since he is not all decked out. But someone has to deliver the horse! It is traditional for the groom to arrive on a white horse.
The auto rickshaws we saw in Rajasthan were way more fancy than what we see in Delhi - all chromed out, with fancy colours and designs.
We were very happy to arrive at our little oasis of normal, Eldeco Mansionz, and just go to bed. And thus ends tha saga of our first (disastrous) vacation in India. whew. Glad that's over!
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