We have set alarms for 3:30 in the morning, an unholy hour to be waking up. We have a car to the airport at 4AM—more unholy hours. Once we’ve successfully navigated the racist bureaucracy of the Indian domestic travel system, we settle at a café near our gate for breakfast….

We’re only here for two days here in Indore, really. We have a 6:50AM flight from Indore Wednesday morning, so we have Monday and Tuesday here to complete our work. We have even more difficulty than usually getting picked up at our hotel Tuesday, and it turns out to be…

We travel from the city with the worst air quality in the world to the cleanest city in India. Indore has banned plastic bags, and—like Delhi does in some places—employs compostable cups, bowls, and other dishware when providing street food. After our sojourn with Meenakshi, we allow ourselves a night…

One of the engineers on my team has a cousin in Delhi, and we start the day by texting her to see whether she’s still willing to meet up with us. We had already agreed in Vietnam that we wouldn’t try to fit Agra and the Taj Mahal into our…

We encounter some unexpected international travel issues at the Hanoi airport, which is especially annoying considering we are entitled Americans with the 6th most powerful passport in the world and unaccustomed to restricted movement. Even though I’ve printed off what feel like a thousand copies of all of our itinerary…