So the month of April will be a long month for me. As I write this, it is Sunday afternoon (April 11) and I’m sitting in my hotel room at the Hyatt Hotel in Delhi. I’ve been in Delhi for about a week (I left Seattle last Monday) and will be here through next week. After that, I’ll head to Japan for a week, then home for a couple of days, and then back to Delhi with Michelle for a house hunting trip. Whew! It will be a busy month and I’m tired just writing about it.
It is HOT in Delhi and it is only April. I left Seattle to the normal rainy weather with a temperature of about 45 F (7 C). It has been about 100 F (38 C) while I’ve been here. I can’t wait to see what it is like when we move in July!
I was chatting with Marty, the person I’m replacing, and he said that his family took every chance they could to get out of the city and into the hills. The British used to move the capital from Delhi to Shimla in the summer. Based on what I’ve seen of Delhi in the summer so far, sounds great to me!
Since my last trip to India, the traffic hasn’t improved, so I guess that I have this to look forward to for the next several years. When I took this picture, the traffic was in neat, orderly rows, a very unusual occurrence! Usually, it is cars and motorcycles and buses and people and everything else all over the road. It seems that the marked lanes are only vague suggestions. There are usually at least three cars and several motorcycles across in a two lane road. I just ignore what is going on and leave everything to the driver. It all seems to work out.
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