Physically I'm back on the mainland of India, but psychologically I've already left it and I'm sitting on a nice tranquil tropical island somewhere in Thailand. I've decided to end my India trip a bit prematurely before really seeing all that much. Somehow my heart just feels it isn't in the right place. Andaman had given me new direction -- one that I hadn't expected. I've bought a ticket leaving from Chenai to Bangkok next Thursday. Actually I attempted three times to buy the ticket through orbitz, and each time they gave me the same response a day later saying I needed to rebook my ticket. After the third day and third attempt I gave up and went directly to the carrier, successfully bought the ticket and even saved a few bucks.
So now I'm just biding my time waiting to get out of here. I thought maybe I'd spend the week hanging out in Mammallapuram and Pondicherry relaxing, but my first night in mammallapuram (after having already paid for two nights) I met two germans (yes girls) who were leaving the next day for pondicherry. We made plans to meet up the next morning for breakfast and then visit the caves together. Afterwards over lunch as we were saying our goodbyes, they said sorry for leaving me all alone again and joked that I could always join them. Hmm, why not. An hour later we were sitting on the corner waiting for a bus. Tonight we're heading toward madurai which is complete and total insanity for me because I'm quickly going further off in the wrong direction and in five days I'll probably find myself on a 30 or so hour train ride back to chenai. Then again maybe I'll get lazy and hop on a plane. Who knows. That's so far off in the future why think about it right now...
In the mean time it is nice to be moving around (it seems to be the state I'm most comfortable with) and of course hanging out with people.
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Hi Jeff, Brian Palmer...remember me, from HA? I'm actually coming to Chennai on Monday night the 19th. I will be there for a week. It looks like from your blog you are flying out on the 22nd. If you are up for meeting up with me, shoot me an e-mail. btpalmer@ you know the rest of the hewitt e-mail addr. I'd love to say hi to you while I am in town.
Good stuff! I'd make some horrid Thai joke, but I think they've all been done. When you get there, please find out if "real" thai people actually eat satay (sateh?) or pad thai. That's yummy. Python heart, on the other hand, is not, and I hear tell (Tony Bordain) they eat that too.
Wow! Thailand! That sounds awesome! (man, i totally feel like busting a joke! :)
Have fun. I was in SD this weekend and they had a pad thai pizza at this pizza place. We didn't try it though. Had the pepperoni pizza! very good! and the pesto pizza was great! anyway, have fun in Thailand!
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