Currently claimed a seat next to Gate A49, waiting for my last leg of the journey to Chicago from Delhi. I just posted a photo of a portion of my very large host family in Srinigar, Kashmir. I’m very lucky to have stayed with them I think my experience in Kashmir would have been very different if I hadn’t met them. So long story short Srinigar was not on my list this summer, either was Leh. But I made the choice to go to Srinigar after I already bought tickets from Leh to Manali, then from Manali to Delhi. The road to Manali is pure hell on earth. The sights are out of this planet and the altitude you scale is incredibly cool. But not worth doing twice. So I sadly said goodbye to the money spent and booked a shared jeep with a Ladahki family and one boy from Delhi. I earned a high fever and headache about an hour. But once I got Sringigar it had been arranged to stay with Javid Reshi and his family. Which turned out to be about 20 people living in a large Kashmir style house along the placid shores of Dal Lake, in the quiet part of Srinigar. It was a wonderful three days spent. More to come later. Jet leg is creeping in.