Skipping Mumbai, heading to Pune

We've reached the city of Pune, India, population 3.8 million, which makes for some absolutely insane traffic conditions! But we made it through! Original plan had been to go to Mumbai, but we decided to divert to Pune, since it's more on the way, and we were terrified to drive through Mumbai, an even bigger city!

In Pune, met up with Michelle, who is a former co-worker of mine, currently traveling around India. She's being nice about our rickshaw-driving exploits, but I'm sure she finds us to be just as crazy as everyone else does for doing this! But that's ok, we're good at doing crazy! On the bright side, the first words out of her mouth upon seeing the rickshaws were 'What's first and second?'

Currently staying at an extrmenly posh La Meridian hotel in downtown Pune, which costs16,000 rupees a night! ($400), but Cyrus is getting for free via points... stark (really, really stark) contrast from our lodgings the last three nights! Tomorrow, taking off towards Ellora and Ajanta caves, which are supposed to be amazing, and we'll hopefully see on Tuesday...

On the less exciting side of things, just heard from Tommy, of the Chipatti Chasers team (that being the Brits we knew from the Mongol Rally), and they had apparently fliped their rickshaw (again... Mongol Rally also ended in a similar fashion). Nobody was hurt, fortunately, not clear if any of them will continue...