More Varanasi

OK, time for the first truly descriptive blog. We woke up at 5:30 this morning and took a boat out into the Ganges and watched devotees bathe and do laundry in the holy water as the sun came up. Again, got some great pics and video, but you'll have to wait a bit longer to see them. The pictures will do way more justice to this place than my travel-addled prose ever could. I've taken 300 photos since I got here two days ago, and they are all "mind-bottling." It's hard for westerners to fathom just how old this place is and how little life here has changed for 1000s of years. At the cremation ghat, there's a fire used to stoke the cremation mounds that been buring for continuously for 1000 years. Since WAY before we came up with "Just Do It." Yesterday we went to Sarnath, where Buddha delivered his first sermon in the 6th century B.C. Our guide gave me a leaf from a clone that's growing there of the very tree Buddha sat under while he lectured. I talked to Dana this morning and she said everyone has arrived in Delhi and is doing well - I'm looking forward to getting back to the farm for a little peace and quiet. Hari Bol!