Ishq in a Backpack was the title of an essay Navdeep wrote a few years ago in an effort to entice Sona into an extended honeymoon.

When we "met," Navdeep was living in California, immersed in a creative writing MFA program, while Sona was working as an entertainment writer in New York.

We are very different travelers. Sona likes to travel as long as it's done in style and there is plenty of shopping involved. Navdeep has no problem roughing it and has backpacked through China, Nepal, Tibet, Vietnam, and India. He can brush a cockroach off his plate and continue eating. Sona flies into hysterics at the very idea of a cockroach (or any other creepy-crawly thing) within a ten-mile radius.

Join us as we achieve our goal of conquering the world one honeymoon at a time and blog all about it! Oh, and Navdeep kills a few creepy, crawly things, at Sona's, uh, request (we'll blog about that too).