Halloween, how spooky.......

After a quick trick-or-treating round of the neighborhood, we were off to our weekend holiday to Pondicherry.

Starting late in the evening, our aim was getting 2/3rds of the way there.....a hotel 200km from home.

I know...sounds sort of funny, doesn't it. 200 km isn't very far. Reminder: I'm in India. My guess (I'm not looking up the direct conversion now) is that's about 170 mi?

Why does travel take so long?

• we had a new driver hired for this trip alone...who got a little lost
• traffic. traffic here is just not like traffic at home. We'll talk.......
• had some rain and darkness to contend with
• had road conditions including miles of potholes as big as Oklahoma 'lakes'
• because of the combination of most of the points listed above, we also had a flat tire.

Imagine it....the Indian 'outback', it wasn't raining but lightening was all around us. I saw a snake sliver across the road. It's 1:30 a.m. and we're broken down with a flat tire.

Now, that's a good old fashioned spooky Halloween adventure. :-D

Of course it ends well- I'm on the Internet! Unphased, we pulled into our hotel 7 and 1/2 hrs later.

The Murphy's are quite a hardy crew. That includes, you know, a 6, 4, and 2 year old. Yes, I also handled it well. I really felt that I shouldn't behave any worse than the 2 year old, so that didn't leave me any room for an emotional outburst. ;-)

The journey to that point was exciting and well worth the adventures of our weekend getaway.

More to come!

To bed now.

HUGs all- W:)