That’s a picture of Sean and I crossing the border back into India. Its startling how fast the highest mountains in the world give way to palm trees. To get there, we had to take a flight from Kathmandu to some little town on the eastern edge of Nepal. The airport was like something out of an Indiana Jones movie – the baggage claim was a wooden counter and the whole terminal was just one room. From there, we had to hire a cab to take us across the border (pictured above) into a town called Bagdogra which is just on the Indian side of the border. We were concerned to not have anywhere to stay, but the Lord was watching over us. The night before we left, our friend Viku (the guitar player from Moksh) had us over to participate in a worship gathering. He heard our plans and told us his grandparents ran a hotel in Bagdogra. So it turned out that we had a place to stay. We stayed at marina’s motel one night (despite wifi being down, it was really nice) and then headed to the Bagdogra airport. We caught a flight to Calcutta, where we had a 6 hour layover. From there, we took a flight to Bangalore to meet our friend Brian, who has been kind of the point man for this whole trip. So if you’re keeping score, that’s 5 airports, 3 cab rides, 2 buses and a hotel in about 50 hours.
Over the next couple weeks, we’ll be based out of Brian’s apartment while doing gigs all over South India. He also has an Indian friend named Paul Victor who runs a ministry based production company and he’s actually the guy who has booked our shows in south India. Despite telling Brian and Paul how tired we already are, it seems we’re going to have to find a second wind because the next couple weeks are jam packed.
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