Can The Adults Please Smoke? 36 and Living Well... — Page 69

D2 - have a safe trip!

Good morning people!

Safe travels D2!

Glad your project is nearing completion Addy...but please take care of yourself. Thank God that fall wasn't much worse. I am guilty myself of keeping late office hours to the detriment of everything else going on in my life...sometimes we need to slow down and ease the grip...I am working on this myself.

Just got in the office to a ton of e-mail and the phone is ringing off the hook already!

Wishing everyone a Blessed and Happy Tuesday!

Heya.

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Safe travels Deet. Get thee to a Dr. Addy.

It is snowing fierce here in CR.

Howdy, peeps and peepers.

Good morning!

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G'morning.

It's nearly 10:00pm here in Delhi. We got in without incident, went right to the hotel, showered and fell asleep. Just ordered room service and then back to sleep. Flying to Chandigarh tomorrow morning - a 45 minute flight. That's nothing now.

After that long-ass flight here I will never b!tch about cross-country travel again.

Since our hotel for the night is near the airport we really haven't seen much. The view from our room is of a manicured (astroturf) garden, and beyond the wall: crumbling, filthy tenements.

Just like New York: Great wealth jammed up against tremendous poverty.

We'll be in Chandigarh tomorrow and Friday, then back to Delhi for Saturday, Sunday and Monday, flying home on Tuesday. I think we're going to the Taj Mahal (the real one) on Sunday.

Okay, I'm exhausted.

'later.


Oh, and Addy: don't "fit it in." GO. TO. THE. DOCTOR. NOW. You're too precious to lose.

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Appointment made. I promise.

Don't have anything to add - just stopping by.

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D2, my very first plane ride was to India back in 1980 (choir trip). I couldn't wait to get off that plane when we landed.

Addy, glad to hear you made a doctor's appointment.

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Okay, if Chandigarh is supposed to be "the city beautiful," someone's standards are off by about 1,000 miles.

Although the hotel is gorgeous, and the view of the Himalayas from the rooftop pool deck is spectacular!

So far I'm fascinated by everything. As Mrs. Moore says in "A Passage to India," it's all a "muddle." The contradictions, even from my very limited time and experience here, are extraordinary. The people are lovely, generous, and friendly while at the same time they have absolutely no boundaries or sense of personal space. No question is too personal, there is no such thing as being too close to anyone. They also do not travel lightly -- even on the short (25 minutes) flight today, people were traveling with 4 or 5, sometimes 6 pieces of luggage, and I saw two men picking up two 32' flat screen Sonys at the baggage claim.

My two favorite things so far:
Just before the plane left the gate at JFK on Tuesday, a steward raced down the aisle spraying air freshener (repeated halfway through the flight and again just before we landed.) There was something endearing and enchanting about that. And no, the plane did not smell bad. A few of the passengers... well that's another story.

And when we checked into the hotel here in Chandigarh earlier, the man at the front desk was very contrite that our room only had a double bed; he hoped we didn't mind but if we wanted he'd try to find us a room with two singles. It was all I could do not to laugh out loud. We said it was fine.

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Updated On: 2/28/13 at 03:09 AM

Good morning to you all!

Pal Joey? Oh...the other BFF.

'Morning! Looking froward to seeing Deet's photos from his trip. I'll never get to India myself, so i have to live through him (again).