Namaste from steamy Delhi.. It’s about 9PM here and I’m trying to stay awake long enough to get a normal nights sleep tonight. I feel pretty good so far !
Before I write about my day, I want to correct a mistake from a few days back. I mentioned that Baby brother billy’s band had a shot at opening for Coldplay on their next tour if they get the most votes in the best unsigned band contest that a Boston radio station is playing. The band’s lead, Jon, let me know that I got the link wrong.. Here is the correct link
http://www. coldplayontour. com/wfnx/ Please go there right now and vote for the last Band.. Common Thrill. The picture on the video looks like this:
Anyway.. back to my day.. What can I say.. I spent it all in the air. We boarded abut 5:30 PM at JFK .. a pretty small 777 for such a long nonstop
They fed us many times… nothing very exciting.. but all vegetarian.. one big advantage of Air India
I sat next to a really nice indian couple who live in Pittsburgh now.. The guy went to school at Texas A & M.. They’re on their way to Hydrabad for vacation. I gave them one of my few SamStones to take there.
It was hard to get comfortable… but I managed to sleep on and off through the journey.. It’s a loooong way in coach seating in a packed plane.. The route took us over Greenland then down through the Baltics, over Afghanistan and Pakistan and into India. One cool feature is they had selectable cameras so you could see what was below.. For some reason I thought it would be cool to video our landing..
My driver met me as I excited customs.. and we were on the road.. plane to insane in maybe 15 minutes.
It started to rain just as we got in the car.. and it was torrential !.. It was about 90 degrees when it started.. it colled into the 80s as the rain got harder.. It reminds me so much of growing up in Houston.
I checkied into my hotel.. did soem day job work.. then decided I was goign to be brave and take a run. it was amazing.. it was about 7PM and the streets and sidewalks were still packed..
There were cool stalls set up everwhere.
I found a yoga place about a half mile from here..
Every vertical surface is plastered with politics.. they’re really pretty whn they start to mix together..
I found this cool church with a christian saying in Hindi. (What’s it say Ruchir ? )
there was a Hindu temple across the street. I love the way the culures mix here..
This one had a swastika on it which is a sacred symbol in the old Hindu tradition. Still scares me to see it.
It was getting dark so I ran back to the hotel.. The streets were running like rivers at that point.
Just before the hotel I saw this building that was some sort of Engineering society ? I took a picture of the word ‘Engineer’ in Hindi.. as soon as I did A security gruard came up and chased me away.. No taking pictures of this builiding !.. Wonder why ?
Ahh.. I found my way back to the hotel.. Not my fastest run to be sure.. but very interesting.
I got back o my room and took a shower and started to work again.. thenblog. I’m hoping to stay awake for an 11:30 work call… Wish me luck.
Namaste everyone.. namaste Sam
-me
