Hello Friends and Family,
I am about to embark on a journey to India and want to start a blog to document my thoughts and adventures there. Somehow it seems that the Lord has made every opportunity for us (my family) to go whereas in the past, that is the seven years that I have been married, it has been practically impossible. In fact it is almost as if I am being pushed to go this time. Many factors here in Alachua have contributed to this realization 1. Loss of teaching job 2. Having to leave our rented house 3. Availability of resources to purchase tickets (sponsorship) 3. My son not being able to go to either of the devotee schools this year 4. And there are several other reasons as well. We leave New York on a direct flight to Mumbai on October 1st. We have purchased a ticket that allows us to come back anytime we like so the duration of our trip to India is not at all finalized.
We will stay at the Chowpatty Radha Gopinatha temple in Mumbai for about a month. In early November we will take a three day train ride from Mumbai to Mayapur (via Kolkatta) with over 2000 other friends from the temple in Mumbai. On November 5th Radhanatha Swami will take over 2000 of us to several places and Mayapur in addition to other places in Bengal. That will last for ten days and after that we will stay in Mayapur for a while. The rest is up in the air.
So for those of you who are interested I will try as much as possible to post about our trip. Our goal on this trip is to purify our hearts so that we can serve and enliven those around us in the future.
I hope that you are well.
