Tami B

First day out on the town... read more

I love to travel. Why? It's really hard to explain. At least hard to explain in short Reader's Digest condensed stories that capture the readers attention. It must have something to do with all the things that can't be read about but must be experienced. Like the watching the Lavatory Vehicle suction out the pee and poop out of an airplane. Now that's not something you see everyday. You think about things you don't typically think about in a given day. Like, "What's that guys job title?" and "Is he wearing gloves?" and "Do you suppose he has to place the yellow trash can under the hose connection to catch the drips/spills?" Then there is the group of three young men, probably in their twenties watching everyone in the bar. They are actually doing well at ... read more

Bangalore, India 150707 0911 local time I’ve grown accustomed to the power outages. They average about 4 a day. The first one in the elevator was a little unnerving but after a while you get used to it. In the elevator at work, when the power goes out, the elevator has to recalibrate itself by descending all the way back down to the basement. Not to worry, the descent is so gradual you don’t even realize you are going down. It just takes forever. When the power goes out twice on the same trip, a trip up to the fourth floor can take 10 minutes. Rick and Scott said that it didn’t happen until Nathan and I came, but then again Rick and Scott say a lot of things didn’t happen until Nathan and I ... read more

Bangalore, India 100707 0617 local time Arrrggghhh! Two and a half hours of sleep and I’m awaken by the Bangalore Philharmonic again, toot toot, honk honk. And supposedly this hotel is quieter than the first. We work from 3p to 3a local time to catch most of the states online, which means we get back to the hotel around 4am. Morning light reaches us shortly after 6am. My confounded body has to wake up with the daylight even though I have the curtains pulled tight. As I write, it is almost 8p at home in Austin. Enough about me… Another observation from Rick, if at first you don’t succeed, find a different starting point. There is very little developed around the office complex from which we are working. I mean much in the way of ... read more