I leaft Dallas yesterday for JFK Airport, where my Air India flight took me East across the Atlantic, North Europe and Asia on the way to Delhi, India. Coming back, I'm flying across the Pacific to LA, meaning I will have circled the globe by Friday morning. The flights and connections were good and the food in Business class had Indian options for the meals. I got rice porridge, lamb curry, naan, dal, and kheer over several meals. The theory was to keep us feed and drunk enough we didn't notice the time in flight.  When we got off at Delhi, it was like Miami in August. The heat and humidity struck you like a wave as you walked off. Naturally, the airport is being redone and there's no AC.  Outside its drizzling, but there are all these trees with lovely white flowers I'll have to get the name of. I think they are the species Buddha attained enlightment under.

My employer's Indian office had someone to fetch me. His cab got a flat on the way in and we stopped at this shack for tire repairs. Not as cool as Doug's Afghan Auto Repair tape, but close. The car was propped up on rocks and a old piece of rebar used to fit the tire on the rim.  While I waited in the car, I saw monkey walling along the wall of an old house holding each others tails like in the Jungle Book. We also saw oxen pulling carts, the same Bahmin cattle we crossbreed for heat resistance in Texas, on the main streets and the scared cows wandering all over the streets. It was raining hard enough then so that I couldn't get decent shots with the pocket camera. One of the brief sunlite moments happened as we got back on the highway, so here's the back of the tire store. In comparsion with other places, its actually not that bad.



The hotel is very nice, with a large carving of the Hindu elephant god in the lobby. The street outside has all these old tree stumps heavily carved and more of this flowering tree I see everyway.  The neighbor outside the hotel grounds is very poor and I gave up on my walk as I was being hounded by beggars. Very aggressive they are too, like the gypsies in France, and I really didn't feel up to slapping hands away until they gave up. More shots hopefully tomorrow when my keeper arrives.





I'll try for those carved stumps and the area tomorrow but it is raining pretty good right now. I am hopefully meeting our local rep for chai in a bit, so more later.