You know you've been travelling too long....

Seriously - the travel I do for work is so important and valuable to the program and me but I think I may be on the road too much. I am in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh today. Yesterday I arrived in Hyderabad - the hotel pick up guy wasn't there. We eventually tracked each other down (through about 5 people's cell phones). During those phone calls, I discovered that I was supposed to be awake and working in about 10 hours. After checking into the hotel, waiting for them to move a TV into the room, I realized that if I wanted to charge my cell phone I would have to sacrifice the mosquito repellent (only one outlet). Oh, and then the requisite call to reception to ask for toilet paper. Then I realized that I couldn't actually turn the fluorescent light off over my bed, my two options were on and flickering. Yeah, needless to say I woke up a few times to horrible bug bites and to the flickering fluorescent.

Tonight I'm in another hotel, a much much nicer one and had a bizarre craving for spaghetti so ordered it with bolognaise sauce and it might have been the worst thing I've ever tasted. Let's just say it had olives, green peppers and processed melted cheese on top. But the worst part was the mysterious spices that I've not yet gotten out of my mouth after several cups of tea and brushing of the teeth.

Oh, I attach a holi picture to remind all of you what you missed. Two weeks later, still pink hair!