Wrapping up my time with CRS here from New Delhi. Had a few hours before it got dark this evening to duck out from the hotel and take a walk around. Sounds like a simple thing, I suppose, but too often on these trips I’m working 17 hour days so even a simple walk is welcome enough.
You really almost have to experience an Indian city to really get what it looks like, what it sounds like. I grabbed my camera and just stood for awhile on a corner to watch what happened. This city sort of just unleashes a torrent of humanity past you, every second – cars a buses, rickshaws and small motor transports, bikers and walkers of every possible description. It makes me a bit crazy at times – makes me want some quiet corner of Montana to just sit down and look up at the sky and hear nothing. But if it chases your mind to some distant piece of solitude, Delhi – or any city here – is also a reminder of how lucky you are to have what you have, to make your living with your mind and not your body, and to have the option, as I did, for an afternoon’s walk instead of peddling a rickshaw in 100 degree heat, earning for your efforts the equivalent perhaps of a few cents.
Off to Mumbai tomorrow.
April 24th, 2010 | by David in Travel
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