Monday, September 10, 2007

These are the van driver's favorite things

After much careful study, I have determined the van drivers favorite driving activities.

1. Honking the horn
This seems to be a common Indian driving pastime. Are you passing someone? Better honk. Are you going around a curve? Honk. Are you about to run a red light and hit pedestrians? Honk for Pete's sake!

2. Playing chicken with oncoming traffic.
When passing another car and honking your horn, you should play chicken with the largest mac trucks you can find. This makes the drive more interesting.

3. Stopping and asking for directions.
No lie, we stopped no less than 12 times for directions today. It doesn't matter if the last seven people have all given the same directions, you should still stop. Also, it doesn't matter if you are on a busy city street or a lonely country road. Stop in the middle of it. It doesn't matter if you're blocking traffic.

We had a camp today in a small village. We had camp at an ashram on Saturday. Anyone know what underwater meditation is? They did that there. Went to the zoo on Sunday. More updates to come. Maybe I can finally figure out how to get pictures onto these computers.

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