Back to the States

Just to let you know, we did get back to the states right on schedule and both of us are back home, Adam in Massachusetts and me in Ohio.

The trip home went right on schedule, though that does not mean it was much fun. We arrived at the Chennai Airport at 11 PM, arrival four hours ahead of flight time was required for "augmented security", and got through security and check in about an hour. So we waited and read for the next three hours until our plane left for Hong Kong on time at 3:15 AM. Hong Kong was about 5 hours away and the flight was pleasant, but once we got there we had to figure out how to kill the 6 hours until our flight to New York left. Now Hong Kong has a beautiful new airport with lots of stores and restaurants to explore but six hours is still a long time in an airport. We were flying on Cathay Pacific Airlines and they have more comfortable new seats in the coach section of their long haul planes, but no matter how comfortable coach seats are 14+ hours is still a long time. And after being up all day and all night in Chennai, on the flight to Hong Kong and in the Hong Kong airport, the fourteen hour flight to New York City was not much fun, even with the 30 odd movies they offered. But we finally got to Kennedy, picked up our luggage, went through Immigration and Customs and exited back into the USA. Kennedy now has a convenient connection to the NYC subway system which we each took to catch trains to where we were sleeping that night. Adam went to his sisters and I went into Manhattan to stay with my friends Shannon and Jaime. We both spent Friday in the city, mostly resting, and, as it turned out, taking in a movie. By chance we both saw the same film, the Indian based film "Slumdog Millionaire", I guess we hadn't had enough of India yet. Adam and I and his sister Becky had lunch Saturday and then Adam caught a train back to Massachusetts, I spent Sunday in NYC and flew back to Ohio Monday AM.

So our trip wound down quietly as we both returned to pick up where we left off before our three month adventure, the same but not quite the same as we were before.

Stay tuned, we will both be summing up our experiences and we have an absolute ton of pictures that we will be working on getting on line over the next few weeks.