The final legs.....

Packed... ready to go.. i checked out of the hotel.

apparently with my stay, a ride to the airport is complimentary so I decided to ride in a relatively posh camry instead of the little Indica with my replacement driver.

He was driving really fast...... or so I thought. when I peeked over from the opposite back seat, it turns out that he was only going about 80km an hour, but being in city traffic for the last two weeks, we had never approached within 20km/hr of that.

settled into the car, as it was much bigger and roomier with leather seats and the works and dozed off for about 10 minutes on the way. the drive took about 45 minutes.

I got out of the car.... my driver grabbed a buggy for my 2 check-in bags and I mosied over to the check in counter to find with some relief that there are some benefits to checking in online.... a separate lane... which was empty. Gee... wonder why SFO can't have something like this.

After a brief scare that my large bag was 30kg, the porter pulled off my first check in bag to reveal that my big bag was only 20kg... no extra weight surcharge.

Then the check person uttered the word "upgrade" relative to my BNG-DBX leg. Sure... not the16 hour upgrade that I would have liked, but this is 4 hours more of Business Class than I had before.

I made my way to the security check in line, pulled out the 2 laptops and was ready to go through when the lady commented that I didn't have a bag tag on my backpack and that I had to go get one.... .fine... I'm here with time to spare and the line isn't that long.... 5 minutes later I've checked through a different line, only to see another security person make the same comment POST scanning, give the guy a tag, and send him on his way.... nice.

I have about 1000INR left in my pocket... which equates to probably about $20. Most of the stores here are all kinda crap... I would have been in trouble if there was somewhere that had some junk food to snack on, but alas... I guess that's not part of the culture. Besides, in 1:30, I'll be sitting in B-class and I should be able to get stuff to snack on.

unfortunately the connection quatlity here isn't good enough to make good voip calls, but I can still surf a little bit and settle down for one of the last blog entries of this trip.

It's been a great trip so far... a good mix of really cool and interesting experiences and challenges with work to give a satisfied and worthwhile feel to it all.

There is rattling around the contemplation that I really should spend more time in the area, and if JNPR will fund me being an expat to the area. I'm pretty sure it's out of the question, but before I ask, I'll make sure I clear it with the fam plans.

signing off till I reach dubai.....hopefully there will be some good food or stuff on the flight.