Getting really, really wet

Alicia and I went down to Baga two nights ago. This town is the apparently the center of tourism madness in Goa. The streets were full of tourists (remember, this is the monsoon off-season), countless shops, and a Dominos and Subway on top. The biggest night club in Goa, Tito's has a property at the end of "Tito's Lane" called Mambos. We stopped here to watch the the ocean and ponder the absurdity of this part of Goa before heading home. Right before we left there was a quick but intense rain shower. It ended soon, and as it was getting late we wanted to get started on the ~15 minute ride back to Anjuna.

Of course as we were leaving Baga (a den of insane traffic) the rain picked up a bit. By the time we were a few minutes outside of town our luck with the weather (so far it has been amazing) ran out. A true Indian monsoon torrent of rain poured down. We had to pull over. I was relieved to see that nearly everyone else on a two-wheeler did the same and were huddled together under any sort of overhang people could find. We squeezed our way in without any reaction from the locals and waited until they all started out again.

This is the result of about 1.5 minutes in the downpour:

Of course this was not the end of the rain. By the time we finally got back we were soaked all the way through. Besides the wet, and a bit of a chill from being on the bike, and somehow in the midst of heading home me losing our used-Spanish cell phone, it was an amazing experience.