Sunday, November 11, 2012

Dengue City



Getting the motor bike registered was taking much longer than I had hoped, so I am still in Delhi waiting for the paperwork to get completed. In the papers are articles about the Dengue outbreak in Delhi. It seems it is worse than usual this year. A very famous film director died of it the previous day so there was a big uproar. Gurgaon, a Delhi suburb and the location of more than 1/3 of all the India based call centers that we all call into on a fairly regular basis, has over 1,000 cases just in the last week. 

It was not until I pulled up the CDC’s Dengue map http://www.cdc.gov/dengue/travelOutbreaks/index.html that I saw the southern US has Dengue too.

On Wednesday after being told all would be ready I wait at the office for a few hours to be told ‘oops the printer broke… come back tomorrow’.

I come back the next day at the indicated time and still nothing. But finally around 5:30 everything is finished and I drive off along with my new little TomTom GPS mapping unit and find my way back to my room with only one wrong turn.

I am setting off for the Himalayas in the morning

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