A Winter in India

Basically, it’s a long trip any way you do it. Our itinerary took us west from Portland to Detroit (2 hours) with a long enough layover to see the airport sites: a psychedelic light show in the tunnel between terminals, the world’s best fountain, and an indoor elevated train. The next leg took us from Detroit to Amsterdam (7 hours). According to the in-flight map monitor, we flew right over Auburn, Maine, exactly eight and a half hours after leaving home! Several hour lay-over in Amsterdam’s airport then another 7 hour flight to Delhi. Immigration and customs went very smoothly, and we emerged to a lobby of hundreds of people waiting for arrivals. We found the driver sent for us by USEFI (United States Educational Foundation in India), who took us, and our 5 suitcases, to our hotel, 27 hours elapsed time from Auburn. A long but uneventful trip, with smooth flying all the way, so it was a surprise to see our one suitcase (pictured here) that looked like it had traveled by garbage truck. Think we can ask LLBean for our money back? Amazingly enough, with the strap around it, we didn’t lose anything out of the suitcase, but our carefully packed computer keyboard has an interesting U-shape now!