The letters from Travelling Mum have been a little quiet. The reason for this is that Mum went back to Australia in October last year as her visa had expired as she needed to address some family & health issues.
The good news (?) is that she called through Tokyo recently enroute to another sojourn in India. She is 75 and I hope I am as full of life as she is when I get that age. She is going back this time to see if a return spoils the idea she has that this is the place to spend her final years.
Whilst in Australia, she did the usual Doctor visits. She had the unfortunate luck to wake up blind in one eye a few years ago (the doctors are still not really sure why) so seeing the eye doctor was a high priority. Almost without exception, the various doctors reduced their prescribed medication and said ‘Whatever you are doing, keep doing it!’. So, as I write this, she is in a car somewhere between Delhi and Dharamsala which, by the way is a twelve hour trek. She already has some plans to travel a little more through India and surrounds so hopefully, the letters will begin again.
As I said when I started this – Gutsy and am proud of her.
