three weeks and counting

I can hardly believe it myself.

After all the months and months of researching and reading and planning and choosing and deciding, exactly three weeks from today I will be sitting on a plane on my way to India. Actually, as I sit here and write this, it is 11:23 p.m. in Toronto -- and three weeks from this very moment I might be snuggled up in my pod on the plane fast asleep. At least I hope I am.

While life is certainly not "normal" (after all how could it be?), things in Mumbai seem to be settling down. Rashmi has had to change our hotel because obviously we cannot stay at the Taj. But other than that our plans remain the same. I have been checking the Canadian Travel Advisory site regularly and the advisory has been lifted now.

And I continue to be very excited about going.

Yes, I know. Security has been heightened at airports all over India. That's a good thing.

So be on the lookout for photos of me on an elephant, on a camel, in front of the Taj Mahal and in a sari -- not necessarily in that order, or at the same time.

Later ...