On Saturday we left Cochin and drove south to Allepey on the backwaters of the bay formed by the peninsula where Cochin sits. As Father Joe described it, if Cochin were San Francisco, Allepey would be San Jose. There we boarded one of several houseboats with basketweave roofs. Ours was a two-story, with a kitchen and two bedrooms below and a shaded porch above.
Our lunch was cooked as we rode along the backwaters, watching the other boats and the birds and beautiful land, chatting with one another, and relaxing. The pictures tell it all.
After a seafood meal, we gathered to share what we would take with us from the pilgrimage, the impressions we have, and what has changed for us, what was on one another’s minds as the journey approached its end.
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