Great trip report

The most exciting days on my job don't come close to your last week! That sounds like quite an experience along with a hefty dose of culture shock. The sites you describe sound like one of those things your glad to have seen and really glad you don't have to live with. I bet conducting buiseness over there is a little strange, with all the differences between Indian and American culture not to mention language and religion I can imagine it takes some effort to get busy together. I took interest in the reference you made to that allergy you have to shopping, it must be heriditary because I suffer from the same thing, I have never been formaly diagnossed and I always went on what Kirsti told me "symptoms brought on by spending money" Now I know it is shopping that is the culprit and not the spending. Anyway welcome home, now go have a steak drink an american beer and wash that stupid dot off your forhead.