Greetings Steemit Community!

With every post I make, I am just stoked to be making it HERE on the most cutting edge and revolutionary platform on earth!

That is saying a lot coming from me, as I founded The Garden of Eden--a sustainable community with the lowest carbon footprint in the country!

So I am grateful to be here with you all investing in and experiencing the results of this platform and in participating in the evolution of it!

Anyway, traveling to me is one of the most valuable investments and experiences we can have. I have been to every continent besides Antarctica and have evolved and benefited my life tremendously from it. Traveling is the only way to get an accurate comprehension of the way the world really works as a whole. TV and movies, while epic, do not give accurate or full spectrum pictures of real life. 

                                                           

So I figured as this is a community based on curating valuable content, I ought to be curating content on my travels and share that with everyone here who also loves to travel and be educated in worldly matters. That way, even if you have not yet been you can get some exposure and benefit from my experience and also maybe be inspired to do more traveling yourself!

        

 

This post is about my travels in India, which is without a doubt the most colorful of my travels so far. India is a rich, raw, and colorful land. 

      

There is SO much to discuss about this country and the experiences I had, relationships I made, and places I went. 

        

This will be my first post of my adventures in India, so I will give a little bit of back story to set up the actual trip in India. 

I have been a consultant in the area of sustainability for at least 8 years now. I have also been dedicated to helping people as a fundamental part of my purpose for 12 years. So when I was requested to come to India to design a sustainable yoga/retreat center and train the people there how to do the building and development, I was inspired despite the fact they could not pay me a consulting fee. I did the project pro bono (this would not be my first pro bono case nor my last). 

                             

I was excited by the opportunity to truly help those who could not afford to hire world-class services and to be able to transfer world-class knowledge and experience to people who would actually put it to good use. 

        

Because these people live in such poverty, a sustainable system that is more efficient, more productive, and cheaper goes a LONG WAY. These people are used to living with very little and getting the most out of what they have. 

        

I was also excited to really get to see the Indian culture and develop real relationships with real people. 

                                          

I have never been interested in the tourist stuff. I like to go to places and get involved with the real people of that culture and live the lives like the people of that culture are living. 

                 

                  This trip had potential to last many months, so I was going ready to really immerse myself. 

       

In this photo they are taking their bath with the buffalo while  washing clothes and gathering water for their day. This is very common out in the rural parts of the land. 

I have many more photos that I would love to share in the coming days here in this exciting new community and am grateful to be able to bring value to it. 

Here is the first video documentary I made of the trip and I shall share it here. I hope you are able to get a lil taste of the land and the people and receive value from it. I have hundreds of photos and videos more from this trip and hope to be able to share more as time goes on.