Tidbits from my journal Day 1-3

Thought I would enter a few excerpts from my journal over the next few days, now that I've had a little time to recover from the jet lag & get back to a "normal" routine.
Day 1 & 2: Met @ GCC and left by 4:15 on a bus for O'Hare. Long, long flight (~15 hrs all total to get to Bangalore, India. Fed well on the various flights; highly recommend British Airways. Hard
to sleep on the plane, but managed a few hours.
Day 3: Arrived in Bangalore. Due to the swine flu scare, we had our temperatures taken via a laser thermometer pointed at our foreheads to make sure we didn't have a fever. Luggage was loaded into/onto shuttle buses, said our goodbyes to the Kalavai team, & we headed to Salem. Driving thru traffic was definitely an adventure, not for the faint of heart. Stopped at The Spicy Spoon for breakfast (really, that was the name of the restaurant) and then on to Salem, about 6 hours, with horns honking & bus weaving in & out of traffic (often on the wrong side of the road
with oncoming traffic headed for you) all the way. Met up with our leaders, Jim & Barb Blechl, at Devi Towers, the hotel we were staying at for the first 2 nights in Salem.


Everything I need for 10 days!


Waiting for our bags in Bangalore. The Spicy Spoon