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Where’s the Where?
June, 2006. Trules has arrived in Mumbai on the day that 5 bombs have exploded in 5 different train stations in the financial hub, but still beggared, megalopolis of the sub-continent. He heads southeast, up into the mountainous tea plantations of Munnar, high in the Western Ghats of the province of green, green Kerala.
There he takes a terrifyingly third world bus ride, up into the cloud-shrouded peaks of the mountaintop with roadside shacks named “Shangri-La” and “Heaven’s Gate”. Then… down the mountainside he careens … hurled by centrifugal force along rubberband, hairpin turns where he sees his whole life flash before him. He ends up in the rain forests of Thekkady, amidst the wild animal preserves and the silver shops of Kashmir.
Music by Kevin MacLeod
http://www.freemuiscarchive/music/Kevin_MacLeod
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Sound design by Alysha Bermudez.
Music composed by Amanda Yamate.
Produced by Harry Duran at FullCast.
Supported by a USC Capstone Grant, with special thanks to Professor Phil Allen, Director of the Sound Design Program at USC’s School of Dramatic Arts.
This was well done – very descriptive about countryside, “terrifying” e-ticket bus ride (with Ralph Cramden), must say not something I care to do, but happy you shared experience…. that somehow makes me think I lived through it happily with you!!!!and good to value what we already have!!!!
Keep’em coming…..
Thanks a lot, Tony! We should take a trip together one day……!!!
Brought back memories of my similar trip in the Sikkhim mountainside of northern India. Great narrative, so entertaining. Particularly loved the piece about the child sitting next to you and touching the stranger. And, of course, your attitude about your cancer experience and learning to let go.
Thanks, Andrea. I really appreciate your long time support and readership, now “listenership”. I hope you’ll listen to Episode 5 next, “Love and the Devil’s Nose”, where I equate a dangerous train ride in the Ecuadorian third world… to my marriage! http://erictrules.com/episode5
Please let me know if you do and what you think…………..