The Trek Home
Thursday – April 27, 2012 All work and no play the last two days… Things have been HOPPING here at the office. It’s now time to leave my beloved Bangalore and I struggled to say goodbye. These guys have been…
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Thursday – April 27, 2012 All work and no play the last two days… Things have been HOPPING here at the office. It’s now time to leave my beloved Bangalore and I struggled to say goodbye. These guys have been…
Clearly, they have been awaiting my return to launch the new line of bling-shoes named in my honor!
Tuesday mid-day — April 24, 2012 Every work day should begin with an adventure! I found an opening in my schedule and dashed to Commercial Street this morning to enjoy a couple of hours of “guerilla shopping”… With list in hand, I…
Tuesday morning — breakfast My 24-hour settling in period has expired and now the real work begins. I checked so many things off “the list” yesterday — bought gold on an auspicious day (check), took my wicked maharjah shoes to…
Monday afternoon — April 23, 2012 One of my “side projects” for this trip was to sell a gold bangle I purchased several years ago. As luck would have it, gold prices have increased nearly 50% since I bought the…
Monday morning — April 23, 2012 Bet you don’t hear that much from me! Today was a very loud day. I told Sareen I was thankful he wasn’t there to “shush” me (he’s in Tokyo, will get to see him…
Monday — April 23, 2012 I arrived in Bangalore right on schedule — 4am, ugggh — and with all luggage accounted for. (I always find myself saying a little silent prayer as that luggage belt rolls around….. hoping/praying/begging for my…
Sunday — April 22, 2021 — touchdown in UAE!Fly fly away! We had a little unplanned detour through Toronto – apparently to pick up enough passengers to fill the plane to the brim! If we had flown straight to Abu…
Friday — April 21, 2012 It has been far too long since I last set foot on India soil. I leave tomorrow to make the trek halfway around the planet — stopping briefly in Chicago and then Abu Dhabi before…
We made it home safe and sound… just ahead of Hurricane Irene’s march up the eastern seaboard. As I was thinking back on the week this morning while trying to hold my ‘standing head to knee’ pose in yoga, I…