Ho John Lee’s Weblog

Returned to California from India yesterday. I’ve made this trip often enough that it’s becoming sort of routine, but I’m always a little amazed at the fact that it is sort of routine, and always return with a greater appreciation for the many small things that work here.

The trip takes around 36 hours. Travelling across the Pacific, you get a day back crossing the international date line, so on the calendar it works out to a really long day, i.e. on this trip I left India on the afternoon of February 10th, and arrived in San Francisco on the morning of February 11th.

Some things that help make the trip more manageable for me:

1. noise reduction headphones
2. shower, shave, and brush teeth during stop over in Narita
3. minimize alcohol consumption during travel
4. drink lots of water during travel
5. get up and walk around every few hours during flight
6. eat small snacks between meal service, in my case, usually pieces of Balance bars

Some random things I notice on the drive home from the airport:

1. roads are wide, vehicles stay in lanes and use turn signals
2. absence of 3-wheel auto rickshaws
3. absence of livestock wandering in the streets
4. cars are large, clean, and don’t emit smoke
5. motorcycles are less common and are all at least 450cc vs the 125cc bikes in India
6. absence of families of 3 or 4 riding on a single motorcycle

This entry was posted on Saturday, February 12th, 2005 at 11:51 am and is filed under Travel. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.