Bangalore - 4 February 2006

Another 28 hour trip from Seattle to here is complete and it's now 4pm in the afternoon in Bangalore. The sun is out, it's probably about 80 degress outside and I have my usual post-arrival headache. Flights here (SEA-AMS-BOM-BLR routing) were pretty uneventful - some European chick on the SEA-AMS flight was singing whatever music she was listening to. I just turned up the volume a bit more. It was nice to have at-seat 120v power on the NWA flight (A330).

I slept through most of the AMS-BOM flight, and the BOM-BLR flight was actually a lot better than last time I came through because the armrests go all the way up on the ATR 72-500 aircraft. The KLM attendant in Amsterdam complimented me on the fact that I get two seats (I'm a passenger of size, in airline terms), and Jet Airways in India had a hard time understanding that I was getting two seats for myself. Oh well.

I was met by Prakash, my driver, at BLR airport and I'm staying at the Hotel Ramanashree, which is much cheaper than Le Meridien and maybe 1.5 stars less than LM.

Nicole's up in Bhubaneswar and will be coming to BLR on 23 February. So I'll have a week with her here before we both head back to the states. That's still 19 days away, but it's not all that far away. At least I can talk to her a lot more frequently now.

So anyway, I'm in Bangalore for the next month.