Getting around

Two days in this country, and I’m realizing that India will not fit inside a blog. Nor will it be able to be crammed fully into our cameras, our eyes, our lungs, noses, or minds...
Today (Monday - this is a time-delayed blogcast) we drove with Deepak and Rashmi to their office, walked a few blocks to get coffee (Bangalore is known for coffee stands - India is not just for tea drinkers), walked around the ‘hood, went to a crafts market, walked back, then drove to a shop, then drove back again.
Walking and driving - back home these two activities would often be the means towards some other experience. In Bangalore, simply surviving these activities feels like the ultimate experience! Check back with me in ten weeks, but I'm not sure if anything will be able to top the incredible dance between endless cars, trucks, buses, mopeds, motorcylces, carts, pedestrians, and yes, cows, on the streets. The stripes on the pavement are basically meaningless, with your honking horn instead being the only form of traffic management.
I have been told I can sit in the back seat of the car so as to not have to watch. But this is better than any action movie, and a hundred times more nail-biting...