In the airport now, trying to get some wi-fi. It's free, but they text it to your cell phone, so it's kind of odd.

I didn't get much sleep last night. Turned in about 9:30, got woken up by a cell phone or a watch or something, couldn't fall back asleep. So I spent most of the night farting around on the computers, frustratingly unable to reach my e-mail. We left right around three, into a CAREENING drive down the mountain. I think literally all 22 people felt sick by the end. The fact that the whole ride smelled like car exhaust, combined with the speed and turns... yeah. It was bad. Got to the train station, waited for everyone to arrive, got to the platform, waited a bit in the cold, got on the train, sat next to Nate and promptly slept for 5 hours.

It was glorious.

Woke up, argued with Nate over the blog entry some more, but it's FINALLY BLOODY DONE. We got off the train and met our guide, who looks suspiciously like my paternal grandfather. The bus driver had a Domino's Pizza hat, which was amusing. We got a little tour, saw the India Gate which was pretty, but gods am I tired of hawkers (I told David if he put the population of China into the state of Rhode Island and stuck me in the middle of it, as long as no one tried to sell me anything, I would be happy.) From there we drove past Parliament and the President's house, very pretty but we didn't get out.

The last stop was the Indira Gandhi memorial. Very understated, but very good. Learned a fair bit, though who knows how much I'll remember. We ate at a restaurant that was also a sweets store, pretty good food, pretty standard for what we've been eating so far. Lots of people bought little things, and I tried a few but didn't eat any myself. From there to the airport, waiting a bit, checking in was pretty easy, security and customs weren't bad. Very slow day here. And now wrestling with this stupid Airtel thing, which is supposed to send me a text with a password but hasn't yet. Bah, humbug.

Oh, hey. It only works with India numbers. Idiotic.

Thursday, February 11th, roughly 4:40 PM local time