overjoyed

HELLOOOOOOO friends!!!!! Just wanted to do a VERY quick update (everything on this computer is in chinese and it seems like it may crash any second) to say i made it, and I LOVE IT....I am SO happy travelling alone and have had almost no problems yet...I keep having these wonderful coincidences, like for instance I accidentally somehow got bumped up to first class (!!!!!!!! IT WAS AMAZING) on my flight to varanasi and met this wonderful girl from china who happened to have a car and a guide in vara. and took me to my hotel for FREE (the ride would have been almost 1000 rupees--20 bucks!!) and then I got to go around with her and her guide for a couple days and see everything free (her work was paying for the guide!) and get acquainted with the city. I also met this 6'3" gentle giant type from the Bay Area who I've been going around with and feel MUCH safer with out at night, and we decided to go to Bodhgaya (where the Buddha got enlightened) and Agra (Taj!) together so that should be fun. Saw the burning ghats (i wish EVERYONE could see these at some point in their lives!) and dogs /bodies/trash galore floating down the Ganges and put my feet in there (!!) and constantly have to leap over/dive around enormous piles of shit and trash and flowers and offerings and every other thing you can imagine under the sun. I am just so so so so happy and if you have EVER wanted to come to Varanasi DO ITTTT this is the wildest placeI have ever seen. Love to you all!