Another shot on why you may want to consider vegetarianism...
I really liked this sign, for the "Hiar cating selun". Hopefully their skill is better than their spelling!
Of course, if you check out the hanging sign, they had it better originally, but it started out as a saloon. :)
There were tons of coconut carts that were really popular and a huge source of debris. Some people really, really loved this fresh coconut idea. Personally, I found it totally disgusting, warm brackish water in a slimy, dirty vessel. Just my opinion.
Tracy and I never did get a chance to stop at one of the many fine bars dotting the commute home. Actually, it would seem no woman ever did. Maybe next century.
Tracy's exclamation as I was taking this picture "NO! You aren't..."
Oh heck yeah I am... we saw some guy or another peeing on the side of the road every single day. How could I not take a picture?
Always good to see the use of bicycles and the attention to safety.
Some road-side shopping...
The pull-up on the last commute into Target...
Yet another tasty food option...
Mmmm mmmm Chiken.
A village on the way to work.
and a more temporary version across the road.
Another look down the road on the way to work.
The impression of garbage EVERYWHERE left a lasting desire to generate less waste for me. Seriously consider it friends...
A different tent village.
A flash of color and beauty on the journey...
Up in the trees are massive bees nests - distant for me, but similar versions inhabited one of the apartment buildings downtown making life there more than a little unsettling for their inhabitants.
Meandering between the fuel trucks always left me thinking just a little about the Ganesh idol on the dashboard...
A scene from a local hall often decorated for weddings quite extravagantly...
Hard to see it, but this is an ironing shop - does it make you think of clean, fresh pressed clothes?
Another coconut stall...
I wish I would have taken all the pictures I could have, to make a book on "things you see on a bicycle or motorcycle in India"
Maybe my driver made me nuts some days, and the ride was long, but at least the seat was pretty comfortable.
Some scenes from the road to Caden's school. Starting with the scary green foamy river...
This is where we got a fair bit of our food after it opened - a very exciting day in Whitefield, India. The store's claim to fame, and namesake - they had freezers!! And with it a decent selection of meat kept under cellophane and a little less scary than the roadside stalls, without the drive to the clear other end of town! Hooray!
So that's the highlights of when I had my camera with me anyhow. It doesn't nearly do it justice, a few snaps and a superficial commentary of the daily, mundane yet "foreign" sensory overload. But at the end of the journey, it seemed fitting to try to capture it at least a little before it faded into smooth highways and orderly strip malls.
