On the road again

After being in Hyderabad, India for about 2 and a half weeks we are northern bound to Dharamsala, India.  And after being a solo leader for about 2 weeks I'll be meeting with John, one of my co-leaders, in Delhi.  Our travel plans are to take a plane this time back north.  It is much cheaper to go by train to Delhi but I thought that experiencing the train ride once was enough.  Now that we are really in the summer months I didn't think it would be good for the teams health to get back on.

From Delhi we take a bus to Dharamsala for about 10-14 hours.  The team and I are really excited to get out of the hot weather and go to the mountain region in the north.  But we will miss the friendships that we made with this base and the staff in it. 

During our stay here we had the opportunity to meet with the regional director of Andhra Pradesh, his wife, and the city director of YWAM Hyderabad.  It was closer to the end of our time here but he sat down and welcomed us to India and to Hyderabad. He told us:

"India is hard to describe because there are so many different characteristics of each region.  It is a land of extremes.  In the north it is extremely cold but in other regions it is very hot.  There are extremely wealthy people and also extremely impoverished people."

This is probably the most accurate description of India, but at the same time its not.  There is still more of India to discover with each state, city, county, and village but for now, we go north.  With little delay we finally go to our second location of outreach.