Unpacking India... Back home with all my shoes, no small feat accomplishment considering how many times we slipped them off on the journey. There’s something liberating, inexplicably comforting - even primal- to bare one’s soles. in India. With feet on the ground, boldly exposed, we kicked off our shoes right and left, out respect while visiting mosques, temples, tombs, sacred caves -- shops selling carpets and pashminas-- and the homes of friends ... Ah, the touch and feel of India. Incredible India. Details from Fatehpur Sikri , UNESCO World Heritage Site on the road from Agra to Jaipur. Palace-city of the Mughals (1571-1585) built of red sandstone, the buildings are an breathtaking fusion of influences: Indian, Persian and Islamic architecture. The land of sacred ground and sacred cows, ancient stone cities, silks, and knotted wool, dirt floors and gleaming marble palace halls. The tour books call it the Golden Triangle: from De
