7/21/98: Very gladly arrived alive in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) at 5:00AM, and stepped into our own tales of India. It was very hot and in a downpour. Through customs quite easily. Checked in at Benazeer Hotel, but they had no room available until noon. They were still completing the build-out of their hotel, and they had an empty room with no windows and unfinished walls on the top floor (5 stories). We were so tired that we didn’t mind (too much) that they let us sleep on a mattress on the floor until we could move into a fully furnished and air-conditioned room. We ate lunch at The Wayside Inn, the historic café in the Kala Ghoda neighborhood, where Babasaheb Ambedkar worked on drafts of the Indian Constitution in 1948.
NOTE: The photo above is an architectural detail of a Hindu mandir in Mumbai, India.
7/21/23: Adventures take inconvenient twists and turns, and enduring adventurers adapt rather than giving up. I am adjusting my method of posting about the RTW trip that Ruth and I took 25 years ago. I’ve had a good start, but I’ve realized my 1-day-at-a-time approach is both a challenging pace and neglects how each of those days resulted in a larger story. I don’t want to miss the forest while looking at the trees. Going forward I will continue to post daily-ish, with a brief snippet from the day’s diary entry along with a photo or two. Then I plan to work on longer posts with more detailed reflections as groups of days or weeks from the trip fit together into cohesive sections. I hope the shorter posts are interesting enough to enjoy, and that the longer posts are meaningful enough to encourage and challenge.
