Day 4 Saturday April 18th

Riz had a dentist appointment in the morning so I spent a few hours walking up and down Mahatma Gandhi Road (the main street in ever India City). We drove over to the shopping district on his scooter. The streets of India are seemingly a free-for-all of impatient drivers, people, and wild animals. Riz explained that the rules of the road are few, but they are there. In India they drive with their ears and not their eyes, the horn is the most vital part of the vehicle, and there are no rules with regards to overtaking vehicles, if you see a spot that you can squeeze into, it is yours for the taking. The streets of Bangalore are crammed with motorcycles, motto scooters, bicycles, auto rickshaws, busses, cars, people, cows, stray dogs, and more people but after a few days of driving around, one starts to see the underlying order of the ciaos.
After a late lunch at one of the oldest restaurants in Bangalore we went back to the apartment for an afternoon nap. In the evening we went out to an old pub with a bunch of his Indian friends. It was an old colonial British pub. The group of friends that we went out with are all un-married 20 somethings, middle class, western educated, computer savvy Indians. It was very interesting to hang out with them and hear their rants about their IT jobs at big companies, pressures about getting married, and complaints about Normal everyday living situations. They were very funny and entertaining and I had a really good time.

Day 4 Saturday April 18th

Bangalore, India