A Trip of Surprises

I'm back posting again which means I'm out of China and back in India. I caught a red-eye out of shanghai, delayed from 9:30pm to 12:30am to bangkok, Thailand, and then to Delhi so needless to say I was a little on the grumpy side this morning. This trip has been a series of shocks on my system. Going from the US to India was the first followed by the switch from Grandpa's hotels to the slightly lower hostels of northern India. The heat was a shock, the cold of Skardu and Khapalu was then a welcome shock. Crossing into China and realizing I was in cities containing millions of people with whom I could not communicate was the next major one. Oh and having gotten used to driving on the left in India and Pakistan switching to the right was strange in china. The shear size and massive height of Shanghai compared to the villages of Pakistan. Which brings me full circle back to Delhi, back on the left-hand side, back to a huge city with a ways to go on development. Back in the heat, but it's not bad, not like back in early rune. I planned on posting pics but once again am foiled by lack of USB. Okay so I'll post my flight schedule as I mentioned before last night was getting from shanghai to Delhi by way of bangkok. Tomorrow morning I leave the hotel at 3:30am for my 6:30 am flight to London, then to NYC. I'll be there for a few days perhaps drop down to Jersey and then head to Denver by way of St. Louis. Even though this trip is coming to a close when I get to different computers I'll keep posting pictures for a while.

Shanghai nightlife is crazy, the skyline is lit up in what a good friend of mine, Andrew Kovacic, would describe as "most energy inefficient." Bon-bon for those of you who haven't been there is a wild night of pumping music, fog-machine-happy DJs, and Japanese energy drinks. Cees had much more a the corner pub feel where Ian and I owned the foosball machine until I broke it. Windows was rather strange with an outdoor patio that wasn't really outdoors. A scene I don't see that often it was fun to experience but I wouldn't want that to be every weekend if you know what I mean. Anyway having napped all day I'm going to go out for a little bit before dinner. Hope all is well with everyone. Oh did I mention I LOVE Indian food? I'd gotten so used to scarfing MSG injected instant noodles in China I'd forgotten how tasty everything is here.