Always an adventure

Traveling always proves to be an adventure for me...or at least gives me a story to tell when I get back home. Sometimes it involves funny and entertaining stories and at other times, a bit more harrowing or nerve-rattling stories. Take my latest trip back to India for example (the one that makes up for my last trip which was thwarted by terrorists).

It started out all well and good with my flight leaving Portland just a few minutes late. What I didn't count on was my flight from San Francisco to Munich departing 15 minutes early, being completely booked and worse yet, finding out at the gate that I wasn't actually checked in for that flight (thanks to United's ridiculous codeshare policy that does not allow them to check you in for flights operated by other carriers).

So I had to wait until the flight was completely boarded and lucky for me, two people didn't show up for the flight! So after an 11 1/2 hour flight to Munich and another 7 hour flight to Delhi, I arrived once again to a foggy capitol city of India (pictured).

The adventure continues, of course, after I got into my pre-paid taxi cab to the hotel. After driving no more than 5 miles outside of the airport, the cab driver pulls over to the side of the road (and as those who have been in a car ride in India know, is not the safest place on a road), he proceeds to tell me that we have to wait 5 minutes for someone else to come take over his shift. Ironically, this just happened to be in the middle of my route. Or, maybe it was his way of getting a ride halfway to his destination. But so it goes...in India.

The adventure always continues....