Thanks for the welcome!! Haha, someone pointed out that if I would just go to Italy on this trip I'd be doing Eat, Pray, Love in reverse :D
India is intense, chaotic, dizzying, uncontrollable, and beautiful. It messes with your whole idea of how life should be - in a GOOD way, by forcing you out of patterns and assumptions. It took me a while to get used to things on my first trip here a few years ago, but I love it now. Of course, I haven't traveled around the country that much - I seem to come to Tiruvannamalai like a magnet pulls me here and keeps me here!