Some days you are meant to achieve greatness and other days its better to not even attempt it. Today is one of the latter days I fear. I’m lazy and slothful and those are the best of my weekend qualities. Being away from home on a holiday is different. I don’t remember the last time I was away in a hotel room alone on the weekend of the 4th of July. I’ve gone out here in Chennai far more this trip than I had time for ever before. I’ll be putting stuff up on my flickr photostream soon so people can live vicariously with my adventures riding autos, going places, working and playing. The place I am staying in here is called the New Woodlands Motel. Its a very interesting corner of the world to be in.
I am told by Deepak that Mylapore is one of the oldest parts of the city and is regarded as a cultural center. It also has a long history which appears to go back to the Roman days. Its close to the Marina Beach area which is one of the longest continuous beaches in the world I am told. It also has its fair share of restaurants, a mall, interesting olds and news, and I’m digging it.
Someone told me that the best way to see Chennai is out the window (or lack of one) of the Chennai auto’s. The auto’s look like this…
There ya go! Not me riding in one but I’ve been bustling around in them myself. Taking photos out of the window/door thing is a blast. I’ve promised a few people at work to chronicle a day going to work. I’ll be riding the Mylapore MRTS which is a hop, skip, and a auto ride from the hotel I’m at.
I’ll try to post more often since someone in the office showed me some kindness and gave me a little Tata Indicom USB broadband CDMA modem so I can do email and light webstuff when I want to.
