Here is what I wrote during the bus ride after we landed in Delhi

elated. gleeful. driving on the charter bus from the airport, 40 minute drive along two lane road into downtown new delhi. I’ve been sticking my head out the window to smell the Delhi air, which is liike over-ripe vegetables and exhaust. it is warm, 85 degrees and very humid, but this feels really nice after all the air-conditioned plane air. The group is quiet now—we’ve been traveling for 21 hours now, some of us more. There’s not much to see on the road, but almost every small thing is interesting. There are lots of motorcycles, most of them with two riders. We just pulled up to the YWCA of India—more later.