Dispatches from Chennai, India
Arrived by Plane on Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 at 4:00am local time
Saturday, February 14th, 2009
Sheryl gets a new camera; Chennai from St. Thomas' Mount; A very strange Valentine's Day
We didn't really realize that it was Valentine's Day until quite late in the afternoon, and by that point it was too late for any kind of meaningful romantic gesture. We settled for a sheepish grin and a shrug. Valentine's Day doesn't mean much to either of us anyway -…
Friday, February 13th, 2009
Walking Chennai; Marina Beach; Detour through a slum; In which I commit an act of gross cultural insensitivity
Sheryl and Sujit let me sleep a bit late today since I'd been feeling so rotten the night before. To tell the truth, I'd heard them chatting in the other room and just wasn't ready to face the world, so went back to sleep for awhile and woke to Sujit's…
Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Qatar to Chennai, India on a flying virus farm; Chennai light city; The wrong decision about which part of town to visit; Everything is more difficult in India; Never thought I'd be sleeping at the Salvation Army; Meeting our host in Santhome; Tapas in India?
The second leg of our journey from Africa to India was from Doha, Qatar to Chennai. I have to admit that I had a little less confidence in our pilot on this flight - while we were taxiing from the gate to the runway he stalled the plane. No, really…
