A few of you have asked me how I managed to update this website while keeping to such an ambitious itinerary. The answer is, I wrote most of the copy while in transit from one city to another and it helped that my past work experience was all about daily deadlines. We tended to get back to the hotel most nights by 10:00, which was way before my usual bedtime, as some of you may know. So after some reading and catching up on news, I would fire up the internet connection and get to the business of uploading material. This was a pretty tedious process until I figured out how to compress the photos into a manageable size without compromising their quality. A few hotels had pretty iffy internet connections and now and then I lost data, but on the whole, India lived up to its reputation as being technology central. All in all, I have to say, inventing and maintaining a website isn't as challenging as I thought it would be. I hardly had to know a thing about programming or code, thanks to the website creator I used. It's funny; about 20 years ago, when we were applying my son Alex to kindergarten, my husband Jeff raised some eyebrows by asking the head of one school why she was making such a big deal about teaching kids computer programming language when they'd grow up to have any application they needed right at their fingertips. Well, I thank god that someone out there was taught enough computerese to make it possible for someone like me to whip up a website on the fly. Alex, by the way, didn't get into that school. But he has dreamed about writing computer code for applications he needs that don't exist. So there you go.
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