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.
