Monday, January 28, 2008

So Close

... and yet so far. After getting the heck out of Nepal I spent a couple days in Bangalore for Madhur's wedding. For those of you not familiar with the process, you fly into town and are greeted by a Madhur's dad and uncles. You then spend all night regaling them with stories of your crazy drive across India in a rickshaw and they spend all night plying you with tequila shots. You then spend the next 3 nights continuing to stay up late and party - Sangeet, cocktail party, actual wedding. About midnight on the actual wedding night, while the party is in full swing and the actual ceremony is a couple more hours away, you bid adieu and head to the airport...

My flight to Dubai was uneventful, but the flight to New York was a couple hours delayed, and I missed my connection to Seattle. They rebooked me on the next days flight, so I called up Katrina and Mike and met up for dinner and crashed on their couch. I'm now poaching internets at Mike's awesome rock climbing gym http://www.thecliffsclimbing.com/ and will hopefully make it home home this evening.

2 comments:

b mathew said...

Welcome back dude. Did you get any interesting questions from homeland security?

dlott said...

Nope. Immigration didn't say a work - just stamped me in. And customs asked "What's in the bag?" I said "All my crap from a month in India." and that was that.