Obligatory language warning.
Wish You Were Here from Vipurva Parikh on Vimeo.
I made this as a special gift for my girlfriend who couldn’t join me for a one month backpacking trip across Bhutan and north-east Indian states of West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya & Nagaland.
People in the video are locals and fellow tourists I met along the way. And yes, I carried plenty of chalk.
Conceptualized, shot and edited by me, Vipurva Parikh.
This is also the first time I embedded a YouTube video using a specific start and end point. I did so using this tool and thought I’d reference it for my fellow blogging friends. One hint, you have to use the URL in your browser, not the shared link that YouTube provides.
A Seattle homeowner decided to confront alleged intruders on camera after his home was destroyed.
The story never mentions if the homeowner was armed upon arrival, otherwise I don’t know how a person can keep the intruder from making a break for it.
If you want to understand a state’s history, start by looking at its name.
The map below shows the breakdown of all the states’ etymologies. The most names, eight in both cases, stem from Algonquin and Latin.
