We left Seattle at around 2pm Sunday. We arrived in Bombay sometime around 3:30 am Tuesday. It took about 24 hours to get here on a Boeing 777...ten hours to Seoul Korea and a couple of hours there, then a nine hour trip from Seoul to
Mumbai-Bombay.
At the airport we took a wild ride (note: they are all wild rides!) to our hotel. You ride through the famous
slumdog slum, dodging may pope dog and other cars and taxis, beeping the horn whenever you near another vehicle or person. There were maybe thirty red lights on the way; we did not stop for one. More about traffic here later. I wonder if any gringo is crazy enough to actually rent a car...
I walked around outside at 5am, and discovered literally dozens of people on our block, sleeping beside their stands or their trike-rickshaws. As I discovered later, they mostly arise around 7 am, and begin their day. More soon! jack
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