How to plan for an 8 Month Honeymoon
How to plan for a REALLY long Honeymoon?
- Have a cheap wedding
- Quit your job
- Pull all your savings together
- Sub-lease (AirBnb makes it very easy) your home
- Make sure the sub-lease covers all your bills
- Buy a one way ticket to India
- Do not plan your trip, unless you really can't help it
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This here, is a compilation of the first 10 Episodes of our Travelers Honeymoon:
01. The Average length of a Honeymoon
We land in India, but while getting ready to teach English in a rural village we decided to relax one little week by the beach. We were on our Honeymoon after all and India was our paradise. Unfortunately, my bride was met with a food poisoning while working at a Formula 1 race... 5 bacterias, and the dirtiest clinic we ever seen!
02. When Giraffes and Camels Play
Up and Out of Bed... We can both finally explore the town, the beach and a pretty amazing little beach festival. We get to touch The Butter Ball, get on a bus and, a week late, but we get to the school (to teach English). After settling in, and meeting every one, talks of eco-villages started and I built a prototype for a Rocket Stove. A couple travelers on camels visit the school and the kids.
03. Something in the air smells of DMT
A visit to the French town Pondicheri, with beautiful architecture and great food. We make a trip to the beach and up the hill to Auroville, a spiritual community. We unexpectedly go to a play for a dress rehearsal and it was great!
04. Port Blair and The Bambi Experience
We fly to the Andaman Islands! Port Blair is an awesome little city not too crowded but it is a city. We struggle with rickshaws trying to rip us off, find a beautiful hotel and take a ferry to an old English military island to find nature has taken over all signs of colonization...Yea!
05. Landing in Paradise... Finally!!!
We are finally in some beautiful Honeymoon paradise.... the long stretch of fine sand beache, water just warm enough it is still refreshing, coconut trees, elephants and our own bamboo hut. Here we feel good, away from the hustle, lounging, making art, and enjoying new friends.
06. Strange Beach Creatures on Niel Island
Island hopping to Niel Island. Another paradise with very little tourist infrastructure. A fish dinner can cost you a few hours, but it is fresh as fresh can be. Bicycle rented for the week, we're set to explore this dog eat dog world!
07. Delhi Belly in Port Blair...
I must have ate something really bad... chicken perhaps, I'm not sure but it was my turn being sick like a dog! Thankfully we had a very nice room with a clean toilet, I need to spent time on! When I did get better, we saw a museum that would surprise many.
08. Colors Everywhere!
Back on Havelock where we celebrate the greatest festival on earth, the great Holi, festival of colors. We play, get completely tie-dyed and enjoy a place that is a little more traveled with internet and westernized food. We met a lot of other backpackers here, made some good friends and recharged a little.
09. Hallucinations From Beyond...
Something here made me very sick again.... I used to have a strong belly! This bug is strong, my fever brought me to hallucination levels where an elf paid me visits from time to time, under different disguises, to tell me I should finish off my fever in Auroville....what?
10. The Meeting of the Three Seas
After a long journey, rickshaw, boat, rickshaw, plane, train and a bus we made it to the most southern tip of India and I am feeling myself again. Snake charmers and fortune tellers do exist by the way, and sunsets make everyone come out onto the streets. We also find out, a little baksheesh can help you cut the lines when they are too long for the temples!
Publishing these these episodes was such an incredible journey for me. I was reminded, so clearly of certain details of this first couple of months of our trip. We laugh about the things we had forgotten about and we can live through it all over again! Thank you to everyone who has supported our Travelers Honeymoon posts, it really helped me start something I had wanted to do for a long time.
Maybe one day I'll publish these post into a Hard Cover Book... Good idea?
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I did not have a chance to read about your travels, but I am glad you posted these synopsis'. I have always wanted to explore the world, and maybe one day I will. Until then, I enjoy living vicariously through others' journeys. I did travel to Spain many moons ago. I never managed to keep a journal and I regret that decision. Hopefully, I can go back and read through all of your incredible adventures. -Aimee
Thank you Aimee, keeping a journal has been good but only now that I am transferring all the stories on my blog do I see the benefit. I love having all the memories come back as I write and crazy details too sometimes that weren't written down.
You will need to find some homestead-sitter for your travels but I'm sure it can be done! OOOOh business idea there???
We use to live so close to spain, Barcelona was my playground for a while. Ok, well I hope you enjoy the reading.
Until next time...
Ha ha! A homestead sitter could very well be a business opportunity! Hopefully, we can find some good farm hands we can trust the homestead to on occassion. -Aimee
Well with homesteaders online's future network of helpers, travelers, workshop seekers and teachers... there may be someone available soon!
So amazing! What prompted you to pick India?
Haha, thanks! Well, the first time we met, we were in San Francisco getting ready to go to Burning Man. I fell in love with her at the festival and asked if she wanted to join me in Thailand to spend the winter away.... that was the first test we always say now.
The winter after we got married I wanted to show her India because of how different it it to the west, and it help a special place in my heart from a previous trip, so I really just wanted to share that.
That is SO sweet. Isn't it the dream to fall in love with someone like that?
I'm from Chennai so it was a treat to read abour your honeymoon in Kanyakumari and visits to Pondi and Auroville.
Haha. Thanks so much @Manouche! Have you been to Andaman Islands? I wish I hade taken more time to know Chennai... but we were coming from the cold and wanted beach!
Hey do you know @soulturtle? He's from around not toi far from Chennai and does amazing things in the world of sutainability... chech out his blog when you get a chance
No, I've never been to the Andamans but i will wistfully stare at your images and hope that one day I can visit it!
@soulturtle is not only from Chennai but we also live 5 minutes away from each other. He was the one who introduced me to steemit! We share a lot of common friends and have seen each other at New Year's parties for atleast 5 years now. We really hit it off after I got on steemit and hung out a lot before I left to Korea and he left to his farm in the hills.
I also comment on every post on his blog like a mad groupie.
TL;DR I love @soulturtle.
Awww, that's sweet. I love you too @manouche. It's definitely been great hanging out on more than an annual basis.
I remember reading the beginning of this adventure @senorcoconut. I had no idea you've got a 10 post series! That is quite the honeymoon indeed. I gotta catch up on how that went.
It's quite intriguing hearing your accounts of familiar places through a different perpective.
lol mad groupie! That's too funny. We interacted only a little here on steemit but we are definitely somewhere on the same level of consciousness, I like him and what he does a lot. Too bad I hadn't known steemit when I was there!
Haha yeah! Come back and hang with us! We can promise you that you will see a lot!
Careful now, I will take you up on that offer... I have been known to picking up traveling anytime!
Thank you in advance. Give me the heads up when you're in NYC we can definitely hook you guys up with the local culture here!
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Wow you guys rock!!!! Thank you so much.
Woww seems like an amazing beginning (Andaman islands hellooooooo!) to your 8 month journey! Despite all that Delhi Belly...which sounds terrifying ! Didn't know you could hallucinate from them though :p
I didn't know about hallucinations from fevers either untill than!!!! That little elf will be for ever imprinted in my head....
Thank you
It is THE BEST to keep logs and I'm glad you did :-) When I went on a 9 month trip I didn't sublease but instead just cancel the rent, haha! In hindsight I would not do this again since we had to get back home after two months and didn't have a home to go back too.
(But then again, maybe if you would have someone renting your place you wouldn't be able to cancel their stay either, so... Hmmm.)
Glad you too found a place for yourself on Steemit to share! Let's keep on doing so! :-)
Yes yes for sure, let's keep on doing so! One of the reasons we sublet is because when you leave New York City only to come back nearly a year later, it is difficult to find an apartment for the same price as the last one....rent just keeps going up and up every year!
So sorry you had to come home after two months though.
Thank you
I am glad you spent great time in India Food poisoning in India unfortunately is an high risk I did not get any when I lived in New Delhi....
You are very lucky! Or very young still and you have a strong stomach... The first time in India I had spent 6 months in the north and never got sick, eating tons of street foods and all that too.
I lost between 6 and 8 kg. During the summer and monsoon season I avoid as much as possible eating street food. I had some problem with stomach but never food poisoning.
I'm guessong food poisoning was the wrong choice of words I used... it was more like bacterial thing!
I see but bacteria into the stomach can turn into food poisoning. Foreigners have a different immune system compared to Indian people probably is the main reason.
I'm sure it is!!! Funny though that I was able to be innInfia for 6 months 20 some years earlier without a problem.
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This is incredible and amazing. Hahahaha you sure had fun and it is always good to keep journals. They are timely reminders. Your painted faces though, Hahahahaha. I really fancy India too though. Oh...Airbnb? Heard a lot about them from my friends @tangerinetravels.
Man, the paint... it's a festival called Holi, a festival of colors where people throw at each other handfulls of colorful powders and water balloons!!! Inctedibly fun, it is!
Yeah, true. Just occurred to me. I have heard about it from my friend; @thatindianlady. That's really nice.
That was the second time playing in the festival in india.. Loved it both times
That's amazing. I hope to witness it too.
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