Scheduling

In response to some of your queries about our upcoming adventures, here’s a little snapshot of our plans. After we leave our Tea Plantation Nirvana we will journey through Wayanad National Park. There we will most probably view virtually no wild animals due to poaching and their habitat being squeezed out by towns and farms that have electric fences that kill unlucky wild elephants. The environment however will still be beautiful and we might even see some wild jungle fowl. (aka chickens)

We then plan to venture up to Mysore and perhaps visit some coffee plantations in the surrounding area. We are in search of the illusive Nescafe tree; its fine brew is served everywhere. In our efforts to order real coffee we always ask if it is brewed or Nescafe. ‘Oh yes Madam, brew coffee, Not Nescafe.’ Only to finally discover that the terrible brewed coffee we’ve been drinking occasionally is really instant coffee with the brand name of Brue. Outsmarted again!

After Mysore we will travel to Chennai to the fateful Appollo Hospital to check it out and meet the famous Dr. Bose. If all goes according to plan we will confirm a surgery date one month hence for Janet’s hip. (Feb.5??)

Then we hop on the next train and travel south far and fast away from the hospital we want to ignore. Madurai is a fair distance, there we will view many famous temples and maybe even buy some souvenirs from India. By then we will surrender to the inevitable and venture back towards Chennai by way of the coast and the French colony in Pondicherry. ‘Oui,Oui Madam this is truly Espresso’. Will we fall for it again? Probably.

By that time we will have dragged our feet and Janet’s hip so long that she will be happy to enter the air conditioned hospital and be given lots of drugs. I on the other hand will be happy to be in the AC but will be in need of CPR from the anxiety attacks that will be hitting me. They might have to give me drugs too.

We will both survive and be happy to leave our luxury hospital homestay to recoup ….where? Will it be Bangkok? Will it be at the Tea Plantation Bungalow? (so far this gets my vote) Or will it be in some unknown but wonderful healing restful place? The universe will decide and so far she has been doing a good job as long as we leave it up to her. So stay tuned and we will all find out together.