On The Beach, at last

We finally arrive in Goa, after a pleasant but lengthy train ride through beautiful terrain, as the weather grew notable warmer. We've spent 2 nights so far at Tansy's Guest House -- actually an apartment with 2 bedrooms, a living room, kitchen with refrigerator and gas burners and sink. No hot water, but it's not really needed. The place is a bit big for us and our budget, so we'll likely downsize and hopefully move a bit closer to the beach soon. But, we'll host a birthday party tonight for Christopher's classmate Ben Henderson -- we'll all go out to the Lucky Star restaurant for real beefsteak first!

Goa retains only a little of the Portuguese flavor, at least publicly, as most of the streetside vendors are migrants from surrounding states, and little old construction remains in the beach towns -- there's lots of new construction evident, for retirees and wealthier beach bums.

We delight in meeting Woodstock friends at every corner, here in Benaulim, a relatively peaceful beach town that apparently caters mostly to expatriates of various stripes.
Sunday morning, several of us Woodstockers gathered at a beach place for an informal worship service.