Osakatomebaby

Okay, technically it wasn't a cyclone but it did stop us from going to the aforementioned orb. Imagine the red splotch to the left being two red splotches about three times bigger and you'll have an idea. Roads were too wet and everything was closed. Who wants to see a bunch of hippies covered in mud anyway?

So we rode out what we could of the rain in the fine establishment of the Hotel Qualithe (the name says it all). Then rode back thinking (wrongly) the rain had passed. Mostly sprinkles till we neared Chennai whereupon we were drenched but no point in stopping then. I can pretend I rode a bundi through a cyclone anyway.

But all that is done and I am home. Very relieved. It's rather stressful, these uber-male cultures and being waited on hand and foot. Not that it will stop me from going there again and more long term someday. Some...day...