All good things must come to an end – at least temporarily. Every six months, we happy tourists are required to leave the country for a time.
Bangkok is a great place to take a break. So is Kathmandu and Colombo. But until the coronavirus travel ban is lifted, I’ll be taking my break in America.
The bad news is there is no telling when all the restrictions will end.
The good news is I can visit all my pals and my family in their natural habitats. (All of which have better internet connections than my little place in Salugara.)
Leaving India was not only a bit sad, it was a bit trickier than usual.
You had to arrive early for the evacuation flight from Siliguri to Delhi so they could squirt your luggage with some kind of anti-covid juice.
From Delhi, you waited for the 2am flight to Amsterdam. Nine-hours long with no hot food due to covid rules – but comfortable. Nobody in the middle seats!
I’d never been to Holland. But I knew they had windmills. So I looked and looked.
Finally, I spied one.
The wait in Amsterdam was nice and long, too. But thanks to covid, there were lots of interesting things you couldn’t do.
From Amsterdam, it was a jolly nine-hour airplane ride across the Atlantic – still no hot food.
However, there was a very pleasant surprise in Detroit.
I was told international travelers were being quarantined in Chicago. But in Detroit, all they do is give you a piece of paper with a QR code on it and advise you to click on the code if you start to feel covid-ish.
In Chicago, they were a bit less trusting – at first anyway.
“And just where did YOU come from?”
“Detroit.”
“Oh! Then, welcome to Chicago!”
And that was it. My dear little Chicago sister, Margo, and her lovable brother-in-law, Bob, met me at the airport and soon, I was zipping down the freeway to their house in Palatine at 75 miles-an-hour! (In India they drive crazy fast, too – but at half the speed).
Once we arrived, they plopped me into an amazingly comfortable leather armchair. I felt like a big, tired baseball in a big, soft mitt. They handed me a freshly grilled cheeseburger, a mug of Starbucks coffee, the remote to a gigantic flat-screen television and told to make myself at home.
What with the Big 50-hour trip, the Big Pandemic, the Big Election and the Big Riots, I almost forgot to pat the dog. Almost.
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