• So… What is India Like?

    Ever since we arrived in Bangalore, I have exchanged a number of texts and emails with friends/families back in the US.  The first question is inevitably, “so, what is India like?”  I understand the curiosity as most of my close friends and/or families have never been to India.  It has been tough coming up with a succinct answer without going into paragraphs as I will do here.  My go-to response has been “the food is great, but the traffic is horrendous”, which does not truly encapsulated my experiences here thus far. My initial reaction of Bangalore, or Bengaluru as it is officially known as, is that it reminded me of…

  • Hello From The Other Side… Of The World

    We are in India!  After a ridiculously long flight, we finally made it to Bangalore India!  The flight itself was quite interesting in that there were 300 empty seats.  As a result, I was able to fulfill my fantasy of having the middle row of four seats all to myself.  While the husband enjoyed his comfy business class seat, I created my own version of “flat bed seat” and lay flat across all four seats throughout the flight.  Don’t judge me, everyone in economy did the same.  That’s right, everyone got their own row, it’s like Oprah was there to hand out rows of seats, “you get a row, and…