Pit Stop, New York City

Note to readers: I haven't slept in 40-something hours and I'm in a bit of shock due to all the cleaness and calmness that reigns in this outpost of western culture. So this post has the potential of being fairly incoherent. In fact, I can probably gurantee it.

So yeah, I'm back in the US, new york city to be precise. Everything went very smoothly, well in fact. No flights were cancelled, nothing was delayed and even though my 14-hour flight was just about packed full, the person next to me didn't show so I had a tad bit more room than normal.

Things seem very calm here. That could be the jet lag numbing my senses, but things here seem so orderly, restrained and... well... kinda tame (dare I say "boring?") It probably doesn't help that today is a very grey and rainy day - which I actually like and think is very pretty - but there seems to be absolutely no color here. I won't go into it now though, I need to get some rest before the next leg of my journey west.

Looking at a globe I have found that I'm going to CA in the wrong way. It would actually have been more direct to go eeeeeast across Asia and the Pacific. Unfortunately I left for India from the east coast (of the US) and so had to come back that way. The route we took from Dubai to NY today actually went by Moscow, Finland (hi Rina and Adam!), Sweden, Greenland, Iceland, Canadia. Yeah, the middle east to NY via Moscow... Wacky.

Here ends my incoherent attempts at typing... stay tuned for more adventures. ajhkbuyhtiusbkjksahkjoiu38bnjkjhshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.