Day 2 in Udaipur The plan for our second day in Udaipur was a daytrip to two sites that I’d heard were worth the effort—the great Mewar Fortress of Kumbhalgarh and the splendid Jain temple Ranakpur. They were completed in 1458 and 1496, respectively, and both initiated by Rana Kumbha...
Last Thursday marked the end of our first ‘adults-only’ trip in four years, to none other than romantic, stunning Udaipur— the Venice of India—complete with tours of the Maharana’s City Palace and a 600-year-old fort, candlelit dinners high above the glowing Water Palace and a...
It started out as a nice, normal Friday afternoon. Nick and I were preparing drinks for Happy Hour, debating what to do for dinner. We’d been told the “sprinkler guys†would be coming between 4 and 5 to test the fire sprinklers. We didn’t really know what that entailed, other than...
Photo by Jeremy Dorrough on Unsplash Hello dear readers – Thank you for stopping by. No, I really mean that—THANK YOU! I know that there are a bazillion and one things demanding your time and attention but you faithfully return to Novakistan time and time again to read about my life...