New Friends

Our last overnight train berth was shared with Massimo, an Italian Daoist engineer on a quest of spiritual places in India who had a strong opinion on everything and his own special apparatus to make good Italian coffee.  Our other companion was Yati, a tall handsome Indian who has lived in the US for the last 40 years and had both a computer consulting business and vineyard before he retired.  Yati very kindly invited us to stay with him in his Goan home, a 20 min. walk from the beach.  We had a great time kicking back and swimming in the deliciously warm and salty Indian Ocean and gorging ourselves on seafood prepared Goan style with lots of coconut and spices.  In the evenings, the little beach shacks put the tables out on the sand under the stars and cooked up what the fisherman pulled in in their nets that day.