Ginger Without Borders

Both of Kingston’s parents are from the State of Kerala which is a long narrow state (think California or Chile) on the Southwestern Malabar coast of India. Kerala is nicknamed “God’s own country” because of its beautiful sand beaches and lovely Western Ghat mountain range. It has been named as one of the top ten…

Brother had meetings on our third day, so one of the employees of the family building was our driver for the day. Kingston refused to take on the challenge of the chaos that is Mumbai traffic even though he learned to drive in Mumbai (and we agreed that it was a wise decision). Without the…

[Prologue: You may notice from the date of this entry that it has been almost a month since my last post about our India adventure.  We are now back in the US.  Please reread my last entry to see that Kingston’s travel plan did not get back to our hotel until almost 11pm.  I am…

Today, we spent the afternoon at the Eravikulam National Park in Munnar, Kerala. Eravikulam has two claims to fame: first, it was the first national park in Kerala. Second, the park is the home to the Nilgiri Thar (Nilgiritragus hylocrius), an endangered species of goat. Visitors to the park wander a winding path up to…