Delhi

I had some travel difficulties on the way and it took nearly 3 days to get here from State College. First there was the bus ride to New York, then a day to kill in New York which I spent with my friends Melissa and Greg. Then my American Airlines plane sat on the runway at JFK for 2 1/2 hours waiting for a broken part to be fixed. By the time we took off, I knew I would miss my connection to Delhi in London. But they put me up in a hotel for the night, and I got a delicious British breakfast out of it, and soon I was on a British Airways flight to Delhi. It was a pretty empty plane and I got an entire row to myself, and a window seat, so I could look out over this most interesting route as we crossed over Europe, the Black Sea, the Caucasus, the Caspian Sea, and Central Asia. We even crossed right over Afghanistan but unfortunately it was dark by then. I did get some good views of Turkmenistan, though.

And the Caucasus were glorious. I didn't realize they were so craggy and snowy, even in the summer.

It was my first time on British Airways and I was impressed. The crew were very friendly. There were several British Indian crewmembers in saris. The food was curry.

It's hot here but not so bad as I expected. No worse than California's Central Valley in summer.