Days 3 & 4: Haridwar & Pauri

BYU Geology Department is working with the university in New Delhi for this project and so after staying at their guest house there will be a four hour train ride to Haridwar. Imagine seeing this as you entered the city. Probably beats the pink plastic dinosaur in Vernal, UT.





After lunch in Haridwar they embarked on a tram ride to the top of frontal anticline of MFT. I have no idea what this means, haha. Then there is the ensuing bus ride to Pauri where they stayed in a hotel for the night. Check out those steps.

Days 1 and 2

After a 14 hour plane ride from SLC to Chicago and New Delhi Eric lands here.





This is an overview of his trip. You can see he is in the northern part of the country so no Taj Mahal pics.




The first week, in purple, he'll be in the state of Uttarakhand. The second leg of the trip, in blue, will be after flying up to Leh. At one point he will be only 15km from the Tibetan border. Google maps didn't show any road names up there or towns. The plot points I used were the names of mountains or valleys in which they will be camping, so I could be off by at least a 100 miles in some locations. Either way it gives us an idea.

Where in the world is...?

So I don't know why I waited a week to do this but I just thought of it today. I realized I have a very cursory itinerary of where Eric is and thought I would share it all with you. I'm going to start from the beginning so we can all catch up. The pictures included are not those he has sent but some I found online to give us an idea of where he is at.

***** This just in!... I'm an idiot: Eric and I have the same phones and I mistakenly took his this morning when I left the house. He called at 12:07. The only call he's been able to make. He's in a town called Rishikesh and was about to go to sleep on a really nasty bed but had gotten an hour massage for $5. Hopefully he'll call when he wakes up.

So I'm going to do this in different posts so there isn't one huge long one. Enjoy!

Coldplay... I heart.

Pretty much this will blow your mind.

Also, Eric texted me from New Delhi last night saying that he saw a pooping dog (10 points!) and that he is safe.

Cross that off the list.

We rode segways. It's been on my list of things to do before I die for quite a while now and I heard that you can rent them at the Thanksgiving Point gardens. The gardens are pretty cool just by themselves, but add a segway and you're going to have a good time... and look like a nerd.


Also, in case you were wondering if Henry and Willis are still alive you can rest easy. We have now managed to keep two mammals alive for a full six months. Here's the proof:

Alive and kicking!

For those of you not in Utah Eric and I are in fact still alive. This is a "last few months wrap up": As spring semester ended Eric finished the course work for his Masters and now "only" has a thesis to write. First week of May Eric presented at a conference in Death Valley and Johanna and Jonathon got married! We got to see Whitney and Danny in Vegas. We hiked up a slot canyon in Kanaraville and made friends with a rattlesnake. Then my summer semester started. Eric presented at a regional GSA (Geological Society of America) conference at UVU as well as TAed for geology field camp for BYU. After interviewing a schizophrenic I flew home to watch Jonathon graduate High School and turn 18 all on the same day. I got a call with a job offer while at his graduation ceremony working for Heritage School in Provo. I said: ...YES! At the end of the conversation the HR director asked if I wanted to know how much the position paid... (sigh) the desperation of an unemployed student is not hard to miss these days. Haha It's a residential treatment boarding school for teenagers with behavioral disorders. I get to drive kids to and from the airport, to dentist appointments, court dates and to go shopping. It's kind of this amazing feeling to like where I work and also be able to put on a professional resume, instead of bagel shop experience. The same day I started at Heritage Eric had an interview, extended by invitation, here in Provo for a local petroleum exploration company. After applying for over 45+ jobs in four months the following day they offered him the position. Eric Parks: Petroleum Explorer. No better feeling to go from two people unemployed to both getting paychecks within our fields of study in a matter of days. We can't help but feel kind of lucky.

We're back

We'll try to be better about posting stuff on here regularly. We were both pretty busy with classes for a while, but we there have been a few things that we've done that are post-worthy.