Road trip to Goa

This year we decided to road trip it to Goa for some annual meetings. We've never made this trip before so we were unsure how the roads would be for the second half of the trip and very uncertain about the bathroom and petrol locations along the way :) We took a different route going and returning and because we did, we got to see some beautiful views along the way. Besides the challenge of finding toilets and petrol, I love driving through rural India. You experience and see so much that the big cities can't offer. We took the longer route on the trip down, so we could stop for the night in a small town on the coast of our state. The beach was clean and the water warm! It really is a gem and hard to beleive it's in the same state as some of the other places we've been. It's like a whole different culture and has a very different feel to it. We wanted to linger longer the next day and go see a fort on an island, but it just so happened to be Holi (the festival of throwing colored powder on people) and call me a grump, but I have NO interest in participating in that tradition :) We we found a quiet place for breakfast and stayed in our car as much as possible to avoid being 'colored'. 

Too busy to take a pic with mom.

Cricket on the beach.

A local beach in our state.

Kids + Sand = endless fun

He would hate me putting this up, but he's too handsome not to :)

It was fun to watch the locals on the beach for a change, rather than feeling like we are the ones being watched. :)