Hey, things could be worse. I arrived in Chennia yester-morning (Madras for my colonizer mates) and stayed overnight, departing for Latvia tonight at 1:45 AM. My hotel indicates a 24 hour checkout. Sweet, I'll just hole up in my room and watch 80's movies all day, emerge at 10 PM and go to the airport. Turns out 24 hours means 24 hours from when you check-in, which was 8:45 AM in my case. Alright, I'll spend the next day bopping round this metropolis. Not much bopping around when it's 43 degrees Celsius (around 107 Fahrenheit). I'm at the bottom of my wallet and don't really wanna pull out cash. There's a 7 dollar fee from my bank on international withdrawals and not sure how far the rupee goes in Latvia.
Long story short, I think I'm going to see Spiderman for the second time, lower myself to Night at the Museum as well, and pick up one more shirt, trousers, and like three more pairs of boxers. Good stuff.
On my way to this shopping center I saw vintage India in a 1 kilometer span. Here it is:
1. Something I'd heard about but never seen yet. A bus like ours in the States- 2 narrow doors, 1 in front one in back. But there's like 4 dudes hanging onto the door from the outside of the bus.
2. A "little person"/midget riding a modifed bike. Not really vintage India but trippy.
3. Chennai has something weird going on because most people were wearing helmets.
4. A dude pulling his bicycle barge of brightly colored plastic chairs.
And this is all at 43 degrees. Here I come 17 degrees and rainy Riga!
peace out
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trousers. LOL.
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