How we got here

35 years ago, I studied in Vienna for a year. My best friend was Patrice Davis from Portland, Oregon. We use to get together every weekend and listen to the new Joni Mitchell album -- Blue -- and think of home. We stayed in touch over the years and Margo and I got to know her sister Dana and Dana's husband Bob and their kids Robert and Claire Davis Fischer. Claire worked for me for a time in DC and has become a good friend to the kids and us. Dana works for US AID and Bob is retired now from NIH and WHO. We missed them when they were stationed in Cairo and vowed not to make that mistake again. They are stationed in Delhi now and we decided to go for it this year and they were nice enough to host us and I do mean host us. Their driver Ben meets us at airports and train stations and takes us around Delhi at an amazing clip. Their cook Rahjan and his wife Manjou have made the most amazing Indian and American meals you can have away from home, maybe even at home. Son Robert (25) arrived a few days ago and has been beating us all in tennis and chess. Dana's indefatigable planning coordination made this trip possible and organized to the nth degree -- pretty important when 7 people are getting ready to travel together.
Tomorrow we leave for Kerala -- Cochin , a backwater boat tour and several days at the beach in Varkala before going to Mumbai for a few days and then back to Delhi and home.
That's how we got here -- lord knows how we top this...
Greg