Bob Slaughter
I'm travelling to Bangalore for business for 8 weeks, and I'm using this to communicate to my friends back home.BobSlaughter
Travel Blog Posts
August 13th 2006
More Updates I've now been here several weeks, and am finally starting to settle into a routine. Trip to Mysore: July 30 Back on July 30, I went to Mysore with some of the other people who are here from the United States. Mysore was the last capital of the Wodeyar Maharajas of the south, and contains one of the larger palaces from the period. Fore more on the history of Mysore, check the Wikipedia entry. We left in the early morning, and drove for several hours to the west and south. The main road between Bangalore and Mysore is not limited access, like a US interstate, but more like the old US highways (US 441, etc.). Not all the road has been four-laned yet, so we had to switch to two-way traffic periodically. Considering the ... read more
July 29th 2006
Well, I have now been here for about 4 days. The weather has been cloudy, until today, and about 80 degrees. The Trip I left Monday evening (Atlanta) time, and flew to Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. The flight was fine, but that airport is lousy. We land, taxi for about 10 minutes to a parking spot out in a field, get off the plane and are loaded onto a bus, where we spend 20 to 30 minutes zig-zagging through construction to get to the terminal. I spend maybe another 30 minutes trying to find my next flight, and arrive at the gate just as they start boarding. We then go down the stairs, and board another bus, and driver another 20 to 30 minutes back out to the next plane. The Air France flight ... read more
July 14th 2006
The visa application is in the mail (well, FedEx, but you know what I mean). What a painful process we have for this. You'd think with all the US resources who've travelled to Bangalore over the past year, they'd have come up with some means of streamlining what they could. But noooooo. I'm also scheduled for my shots. So much at the last minute, but that's how it all fell together. My Team Lead has been over in Bangalore for about a month, and her blog is here.... read more
July 13th 2006
Things are coming together. I have my camera (Pentax *ist DL) and my passport, and I'm working on my visa right now. My departure date is 24 July 2006. This trip is for my company, Accenture. I'll be travelling to our India Delivery Center (IDC) to do what we call Knowledge Transfer (KT) to resources there who will be assuming some of our work for one of our clients that we had been doing stateside. I'm hoping to use my weekends to do some travel. Many folks from Accenture are there doing the same sort of work, and have had a lot of good things to say about the experience.... read more
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