{"id":13718,"date":"2008-10-13T12:47:02","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T19:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/10\/13\/mumbai-travelogue-part-1.html"},"modified":"2008-10-13T12:47:02","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T19:47:02","slug":"mumbai_travelogue_part_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/13\/mumbai_travelogue_part_1.html","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai Travelogue – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Up at 7:30 or so, getting some final blogging, emptying the dishwasher (and refilling it), showering and all that. Leave at 9:30 or so to be at the airport a good two hours before the plane leaves.<\/li>\n
  2. Almost forgot my hat. Eek!<\/li>\n
  3. Did forget (dagnabbit) the camera battery and charger. Not the camera, mind you — but the battery, plugged into the charger, plugged into the kitchen peninsula outlet. Dagnabbit.<\/li>\n
  4. Check-in goes fine. Alas, Continental is not doing Frequent Flier exchange with United yet. Would have been nice.<\/li>\n
  5. The TSA have, as earlier noted, exchanged their white uniform shirts for more police-like blue ones. Still (as Denver always is) professional and cordial.<\/li>\n
  6. Chef Jimmy’s does a good Denver omelet.<\/li>\n
  7. Flight to Newark was uneventful. The in-flight movie was Get Smart<\/em>, which was on my “target of opportunity” list. Review to follow.<\/li>\n
  8. Flew into Newark, lovely sunset view of Manhattan. Lovely.<\/li>\n
  9. Nice airport. Lots of restaurants and shops. There was a camera store right outside my gate (!), but no indication they had a replacement battery\/charger, and any temptation I had to buy a camera with a decent zoom lens (if the cost were reasonable, itself a dubious proposition) was foiled by a sales attendant who couldn’t be bothered.<\/li>\n
  10. Finally decided on a not-very-Indian all-American dinner at McDonald’s. A planned dessert at Ben & Jerry’s was aborted by a phone report from a fellow traveler that they were requiring a second check-in and passport check at the gate. Ah, well.<\/li>\n
  11. Boarded our nice 777. I was on an outside 3-seat on the aisle. Someone was at the window — but shifted to an empty center row, leaving me with a trio of seats all to my lonesome. Yay!<\/li>\n
  12. And though I didn’t initially find a power jack — I eventually did. Yay!<\/li>\n
  13. And … a real metal knife for dinner? The terrorists have won!<\/li>\n
  14. The flight path goes over Newfoundland, curves back around at Finland\/Murmansk, crosses Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan — all the cool places in the world. <\/li>\n
  15. It’s 8,302 miles (per the navigational display). Or 7,806 miles according to the ticket (and, likely, the frequent flier statement).<\/li>\n
  16. Movies-on-demand system. Watched Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull <\/em>and Speed Racer<\/em>. Disappointing and fascinating, respectively.<\/li>\n
  17. Napped for about three hours. I’m losing time traveling there, and I get in at 9 p.m. or so local, so I didn’t want to oversleep and not be able to sleep at the hotel.<\/li>\n
  18. Got up, ate some of the snack kit provided. Watched Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid<\/em> and High Noon<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  19. Breakfast, coffee, juice. Already getting all sorts of bits of Indian airline food — yogurt, a weird curry nut roll in my snack bag. Best part so far is after each meal, a nutty breath freshener thing — fennel, coriander and sesame seeds, peppermint, tamarind leaves, etc.<\/li>\n
  20. Plane got in and landed early, and immigration and customs were relatively easy (if inordinately hot — mid-80s at 9 p.m. at night). The earliness was countered by our having to wait for the driver the company had sent for us to take us to the hotel. (One does not rent a car in Mumbai.)<\/li>\n
  21. The trip to the hotel was over an hour, as traffic was zany and we took a circuitous route. I’m staying at the fabulous Trident Nariman Point<\/a>, which overlooks the Arabian Sea — and I have a sea-facing room, which is also nice. The room is well-appointed, very Euro-style.<\/li>\n
  22. We meet tomorrow to go to the office at 9. Time to start posting and then getting to sleep!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Up at 7:30 or so, getting some final blogging, emptying the dishwasher (and refilling it), showering and all that. 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