India

Day 1 : Mumbai, India

Have you seen this Gnome? Last seen DIA airport about to board our plane and our great idea of Gnomeing has been kabashed day 1. Not off to the best start.

We made it after a 30 hour journey.  T-h-i-r-t-y   H-o-u-r-s.  Take a moment to digest that  - Christ!  Mumbai (Bombay) is  a quaint small town of 14,000,000 people.  After a minor scheduling snafu, we made our way from the airport to our hotel. Along the way seeing 10 oxen, multiple cows, elephants and many, many, many people. We always try to at least book a room for the first night in a new town if we are flying in.  Our room, booked over the Internet, was very "fresh" due to the urinal cakes they put in the bathroom sinks and shower floors. Other than that, not too bad. We have had worse.  

Not a whole lot happened in our 12 hours in Bombay. Get in and get out - our goal to see more of the real and rural parts of a country. We had one casualty along the way in losing our travel gnome somewhere between the Denver airport and Mumbai...but all is well.

The fantastical airport shuttle - Yowza, this is going to be so fun here!
Besides the animals, This is about all we saw of Bombay at 6am.

 

We will be in touch soon for updates. Heading out to Rajastan - the state in the most North Western Corner of India. Our itinerary - start north and end at the Southern tip - covering the entire West Coast of India in just under 1 month.

Oooooo-K. Just some of the sites we saw along the side of the road to and fro the airport.
There are people everywhere. Thick, crowded very "interested" people who don't see a lot of Americans in most parts of their country. Personal space is foreign to them and that is very obvious from the second you get off the plane. Take out a book or read a quick reservation paper and 3-23 Indians are reading right along with you over your shoulder - so close you can tell what they had for breakfast. haahhaa . Now THAT may take a bit of getting use to.

There are people everywhere. Thick, crowded very "interested" people who don't see a lot of Americans in most parts of their country. Personal space is foreign to them and that is very obvious from the second you get off the plane. Take out a book or read a quick reservation paper and 3-23 Indians are reading right along with you over your shoulder - so close you can tell what they had for breakfast. haahhaa . Now THAT may take a bit of getting use to.

We will be in touch soon for updates. Heading out to Rajastan - the state in the most North Western Corner of India. Our itinerary - start north and end at the Southern tip - covering the entire West Coast of India in just under 1 month.

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