February 2026: A meeting, a cancelled ferry, a climb (Tamil Nadu)

The first image is of the dog who was our companion when we camped at the beach in the village of Chithiraipettai, Tamil Nadu. I remembered that we had peanut butter, and I remembered that you can feed a dog peanut butter, so we did. The second image is our route through Tamil Nadu. I was just on Google Maps looking up the village I spelled out in the previous paragraph, and I realized that…